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Bolstering the immune system to help fight cancerous tumours
July 16, 2014
Dr. John Bell
has published an article in
Nature Reviews
concerning the promise of using immunotherapy in combination with cancer-fighting viruses. Dr. Bell and the co-authors outline how oncolytic viruses can be used to stimulate the body’s immune system to fight against cancerous tumours. The article outlines how oncolytic viruses have been clinically shown to initiate anti-tumour responses in the human immune system, and that harnessing oncolytic virus therapy with various forms of immunotherapy (vaccines, inhibitors, cell therapy) could significantly improve future outcomes for many cancer patients. Read "
Going viral with cancer immunotherapy
."