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Bladder cancer ‘attacked and killed by common cold virus’

By July 5, 2019August 13th, 2024Research

“University of Surrey researchers said the virus could “help revolutionise treatment” for the cancer and reduce the risk of it recurring.”

A recent study, carried out by the cancer immunotherapy research team at University of Surrey, involving 15 patients with bladder cancer were given the cancer-killing coxsackievirus (CVA21) through a catheter one week before surgery to remove their tumours.

Prof Hardev Pandha said, “The virus gets inside cancer cells and kills them by triggering an immune protein – and that leads to signalling of other immune cells to come and join the party,” he said.

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