Anti-cancer poliovirus


Duke Cancer Center MRI technician Miguel Rosario, right, adjusts a set of headphones for brain cancer patient Stephanie Lipscomb, 22, at the start of a 20-minute MRI scan series on a large Siemens 3 tesla scanner at Duke Cancer Center, July 15, 2013, in Durham, North Carolina. (Harry Lynch/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)

A research trial finds a woman’s brain tumour shrinking after poliovirus injection.

THE same virus that causes paralysis and sometimes death in polio patients may have the potential to cure people with cancerous brain tumors based on early results of a research trial underway at Duke University Medical Center.

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