Herpes virus helps treat cancer

17 August 2017, 16:46 | Health
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British doctors conducted a successful clinical trial of the genetically modified herpes virus, which is used in the treatment of certain cancers, according to an Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net Tests of a new method for the treatment of head and neck cancer conducted in 17 patients in one of the London hospitals, combined with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, led to the destruction of tumors in most subjects.

The new method is based on the use of the herpes virus to penetrate into cancer cells, as well as to stimulate the immune system.

Until the end of the year, new trials of this method of treatment will be conducted.

Cancer of the neck and head, including cancer of the mouth, tongue and throat, is found in about 8 thousand Britons annually.

The team leader, Dr. Kevin Harrington, who works at the Institute for Cancer Research in London, said that existing therapies are effective given early detection of cancer, but many patients are diagnosed only after their disease has reached a later stage.

The herpes virus, which is currently being tested also as a means of combating skin cancer, is genetically modified, so that it can grow inside cancer cells, but does not affect normal healthy cells.

Once in a cancer cell, this virus acts in a threefold way - it multiplies, killing cancer cells in passing, it produces a naturally occurring protein in the human body that stimulates the immune system, and finally it acts as a marker for immune cells.

"Potential weapons".



17 patients at the Royal Marsden Hospital, who had been administered this virus, had no signs of cancer cells in 93% of cases after surgical removal of tumors.

After more than 2 years, 82% of them did not have recurrence of the disease.

Only two of the 13 patients who were injected with the virus in a high dosage regained cancer again, according to a report from the medical journal Clinical Cancer Research.

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Based on materials: pannochka.net



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