Possible cancer cure found.

Could be "Uuuuuuuge"! ;)

FDA to Fast-Track Possible Cure for Cancer

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The treatment is like a black-humor joke -- they're going to treat your cancer by giving it polio. But that is actually what they're doing, sort of. The treatment consists of injecting the patient with a modified form of the polio virus. The virus is the creation of -- or, the obsession of -- molecular biologist Matthias Gromeier. Gromeier re-engineered the virus, removing a key genetic sequence. The virus can't survive this way, so he repaired the damage with a harmless bit of cold virus. This new modified polio virus can't cause paralysis or death because it can't reproduce in normal cells. But it can reproduce in cancer cells, and in the process of replicating, it releases toxins that poison the cell. This process also awakens the immune system to the cancer it never noticed before. "Why didn't the immune system react to the cancer to begin with," CBS News' Scott Pelley asked Gromeier. "All human cancers, they develop a shield or shroud of protective measures that make them invisible to the immune system," Gromeier explained. "This is precisely what we try to reverse with our virus. So by infecting the tumor, we are actually removing this protective shield. And enabling the immune system to come in and attack." It appears the polio starts the killing, but the immune system does most of the damage. [Brain cancer patient] Stephanie Lipscomb's tumor shrank for 21 months until it was gone. Three years after the infusion, something unimaginable had happened. An MRI in August of 2014 showed no active cancer cells at all.

If this is successful in trials, just, wow...

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