Trials show promise of human virus to treat head and neck cancer patients
Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
A naturally-occurring harmless human virus may be able to boost the effects of two standard chemotherapy drugs in some cancer patients, according to early stage trial data. Cancers shrank for about one third of the patients who could be evaluated, and disease stabilized for a further third. For one patient, all signs of their cancer disappeared.