Measles virus reverses Cancer

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Researchers have revealed a proof of principle clinical trial that used a high dose 'blast' of a specially engineered version of the measles virus to cure cancer.

Two patients underwent the treatment, which researchers stress was at the earliest stage of human trials.

Both patients responded, showing reduction of both bone marrow cancer and myeloma protein, with one, a 49-year-old woman, experiencing complete remission of myeloma -  and has been clear of the disease for over six months.

Mayo Clinic researchers say the result demonstrated that virotherapy, destroying cancer with a virus that infects and kills cancer cells but spares normal tissues, can be effective against the deadly cancer multiple myeloma.

'it?s a very simple concept,' said Stephen Russel of Mayo Clinic Molecular Medicine, who led the study.

'Viruses naturally come into the body and they destroy tissue.'

 

[Viruses] bind to tumors and use them as hosts to replicate their own genetic material; the cancer cells eventually explode and release the virus. Antiviral vaccines that have been rendered safe can produce the same effects and can also be modified to carry radioactive molecules to help destroy cancer cells without causing widespread damage to healthy cells around the tumors. The body?s immune system then attacks any remaining cancer that carries remnants of the vaccine?s genetic imprint.

He hopes the idea could eventually lead to a new treatment, and the team are also testing the measles virus?s effectiveness at fighting ovarian, brain, head and neck cancers and mesothelioma.

'We recently have begun to think about  the idea of a single shot cure for cancer  and that?s our goal with this therapy.

'These patients were not responsive to other therapies and had experienced several recurrences of their disease.'

The findings appear in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

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[astropheed Veteran]

I just had my measles vaccination :(

[Ian S.]

Bee venom can also destroy cancer cells, just a question on how to get it to the tumor without destroying healthy cells.

[singularity87]

Bee venom can also destroy cancer cells, just a question on how to get it to the tumor without destroying healthy cells.

Destroying cancer cells as with any cells is not hard, in and of itself. The crux of the entire problem is differentiating between cancer and healthy tissue.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Makes me wonder if the measles vaccination causes cancer to begin with. May sound stupid, just interesting.

[T3X4S]

Very interesting

[+LogicalApex MVC]

Makes me wonder if the measles vaccination causes cancer to begin with. May sound stupid, just interesting.

I don't follow the connection...

[link6155]

Makes me wonder if the measles vaccination causes cancer to begin with. May sound stupid, just interesting.

Most likely not. Like most vaccination, when you receive it, you're just being injected with weakened measles viruses. Your body will be able to defend itself from these viruses easily and it will keep information about the protein of the virus. This will allow the body to be ready for future attacks from the real measles viruses. This shouldn't cause cancer unless they modified the virus to inject cancerous rna/dna into your cells.

 

What they did with the measles virus to "reverse" cancer is just generically modify it to attack cancerous cells rather than health ones. This could probably be applied to other types of viruses and not just measles.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

I don't follow the connection...

I don't know, was just kicking this whole idea around my tiny brain. Posted on the fly without thinking. I mean after all, we don't exactly know what we're being injected with. Like flu shots. They might tell you it's a flu shot, but at the end of the day, nobody knows what the doctors are actually injecting into us, and I'm pretty sure that the long term effects haven't been fully tested on humans thoroughly enough. They test this stuff on mice. Last I checked, I'm not a mouse... That was my thinking, anyway. Just throwing it out there. (y)

[+LogicalApex MVC]

I don't know, was just kicking this whole idea around my tiny brain. Posted on the fly without thinking. I mean after all, we don't exactly know what we're being injected with. Like flu shots. They might tell you it's a flu shot, but at the end of the day, nobody knows what the doctors are actually injecting into us, and I'm pretty sure that the long term effects haven't been fully tested on humans thoroughly enough. They test this stuff on mice. Last I checked, I'm not a mouse... That was my thinking, anyway. Just throwing it out there. (Y)

The explanation helps a fair bit. The concerned question of the information known about the effects of medicine on large populations is a fair one... To a large degree, no one has any idea what will happen to you when you're given any medicine due to the large variation in humans and the sheer size of the population. They have some general idea, but there is a reason the list of side effects are long and, even more importantly, you are stressed to mention any side effects you experience to your doctor. The best testing is done when it is opened up to the wider population, sadly.

 

Don't take that to mean vaccinations are bad or that medicine in general is bad. It just is validation that there is some risk associated with taking it and that risk may not be fully understood or known.

[Guest]

There have also been other developments...

 

New drug candidate starves dormant cancer cells

New general concept for the treatment of cancer

New approach makes cancer cells explode

 

Hopefully in the next dozen years we'll get even closer to finding a cure for these bastards.