Researchers Use Polio Virus for Cancer Treatment

The cure to cancer could come from researchers at the Duke University Hospital Cancer Center.

Duke Medicine’s Dr. Matthias Gromeier has been working on a Glioblastoma treatment using a modified polio virus for more than 25-years.

Now, Duke researchers are testing the treatment and trials show it is working for some patients. 

After doctors told Clara Guy she had six to 18-months to live, she transferred to Duke Medicine’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, where she became a stage four Glioblastoma research patient.  Glioblastoma is an aggressive and fast growing type of brain cancer.

“It’s a big word…Glioblastoma is so much than a four letter word, and it really ought to be,” she said.

Guy was under the regulate vaccine trial.

“It turns your immune system onto high gear to teach it to fight the cancer cells,” she said. 

Neurooncologist Dr. Annick Desjardins is using the genetically modified polio virus as treatment for some patients during Phase One of the research. 

Source: www.twcnews.com

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