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ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers announced a landmark study where a massive dose of the measles vaccine, enough to inoculate 10 million people, wiped out a Minnesota woman's incurable blood cancer.
The Mayo Clinic conducted the clinical trial last year using virotherapy. The method discovered the measles virus wiped out multiple myeloma cancer calls. Researchers engineered the measles virus (MV-NIS) in a single intravenous dose, making it selectively toxic to cancer cells.
Stacy Erholtz, 49, of Pequot Lakes, was one of two patients in the study who received the dose last year, and after 10 years with multiple myeloma has been clear of the disease for over six months.
"My mindset was I didn't have any other options available, so why wouldn't I do it? I had to have failed all conventional treatment to do that trial. That actually happened last March," Erholtz told KARE. "It was the easiest treatment by far with very few side effects. I hope it's the future of treating cancer infusion."
Steven Russell, a Mayo Clinic hematologist, spearheaded the study and said the concept was previously tested in mice, but never in humans.
"It's a huge milestone in that regard," said Russell. "We have known for some time viruses act like a vaccine. If you inject a virus into a tumor you can provoke the immune system to destroy that cancer and other cancers. This is different, it puts the virus into bloodstream, it infects and destroys the cancer, debulks it, and then the immune system can come and mop up the residue."
originally posted by: crankyoldman
Before I make a point about this as a "treatment" I have to observe this. This headline will generate so much "oh, isn't that wonderful, finally a cure" when someone who has cured themselves of cancer by anything other then a Big Pharma product is a nut job.
originally posted by: GetHyped
originally posted by: crankyoldman
Before I make a point about this as a "treatment" I have to observe this. This headline will generate so much "oh, isn't that wonderful, finally a cure" when someone who has cured themselves of cancer by anything other then a Big Pharma product is a nut job.
You know the difference here? Rather than relying on some dubious testimonial, these people are actually doing science. They've run a clinical trial, got some promising results and are now moving on to more rigorous randomized trials so they can get some data to be picked apart and critiqued by the wider scientific community. If their data holds up, they'll move onto the next stage of testing and other researchers will attempt to reproduce their results, adding more data points to come to a sound conclusion regarding safety and efficacy.
Science. It works.