Doctors Try Genetically Modified Poliovirus As Experimental Brain Cancer Treatment
Duke University researchers says some patients with brain cancer survived long after receiving treatment with a weakened poliovirus. But the response rate was limited and there were side effects.
A genetically modified poliovirus may help some patients fight a deadly form of brain cancer, researchers report.
The experimental treatment seems to have extended survival in a small group of patients with glioblastoma who faced a grim prognosis because standard treatments had failed, Duke University researchers say.
"I've been doing this for 50 years and I've never seen results like this," says , the director emeritus of the The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at the Duke Cancer Institute, who
