Scientists Record Breakthrough in Treating Cancer With a Virus

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Scientists Record Breakthrough in Treating Cancer With a Virus

As our knowledge of science and the human body expands, so too do doctors have more tools at hand when treating cancer. One relatively recent development in this sphere is the use of oncolytic virus therapy, which — as its name suggests — involves using a customized virus to target tumors in the human body, then letting the body’s immune system go to work.As Saima Sidik reports at Nature, a group of doctors largely based at multiple medical faci…