Exciting oncolytic virus progress

[Trissh]

Worth a listen!

youtu.be/fOtaeqfdf9w(Not working as expected?)

[Peter97]

This is absolutely amazing! I really hope this Vaccine will be released this or next year. In the meantime i`ve heard about Oncolytic clinics who already do this procedure. But this when it gets approved by FDA will be amazing. Thank you very much for posting the video. Only the best to you and everyone on this forum. God bless you all.

Peter

[Godbeforme]

wow! exciting news how they can paint ANY tumor with CD-19 and then "bomb" it ... woo hoo ... sounds like they're onto something and APPROVED! Praise the Lord! <3

[Bettybuckets in reply to Godbeforme]

all very promising

[FloridaNYgirl]

Very promising and exciting!

[Beattheodds]

Exciting research! I’m on second line treatment and do plan a half hour drive to City of Hope for their treatment opinion when progression occurs so may be part of these CD19 trials. I’ll keep group apprised if I do!

[NShaft]

Very interesting. I watched a 60 mins replay where the drug company was experimenting with the polio virus. They would make it inactive and inject it directly into the brain cancer cell. There were some patients who had no evidence of cancer for a number of years. We are getting there. I sure wish they would hurry up!

[13plus in reply to NShaft]

I just saw that recently too! It was quite amazing although I'm not sure how it all panned out over the long term? My understanding was that most of even the successfully -treated patients ended up dying a few years later? The show was from a few years ago. On the other hand, some of that brain cancer usually kills quite fast so even the considerable extra time added to their lives was incredible

[TammyCross]

I watched that, too, and thought I should post about it. It was glioblastoma, a virulent brain cancer that kills in about a year. The polio is disarmed and injected directly into a tumor. (So not for those with multiple mets and/or no large tumors.) The way it works is that it activates the immune system. Apparently, cancer cells have a sort of protective shield (I hope the more knowledgeable here can explain that more correctly and informatively -- this was the 60 Minutes description) that protects them from the immune response. The immune system goes after the polio within the tumor and thereby kills the tumor. The results were remarkable. People were living for years with no recurrence. That is, they are still living without cancer. In this report, 22 patients with this aggressive brain cancer were given the polio injection and 11 died. With the success of the first 7, they increased the dose. It seems that most who died were given the higher dose; the immune response was overwhelming and did them in.

They are experimenting with other viruses and other types of cancer, including bc (but not mbc). This one is the success story.

[13plus]

This is extremely promising. It does look to me like this will only be for TNBC (going by the cancers listed on one of his charts) but still, very exciting!