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Tests show woman?s brain cancer responds to new poliovirus treatment at Duke
Published: July 16, 2013 Updated 15 minutes ago
By Renee Elder ? relder@newsobserver.com
DURHAM ? The same virus that causes paralysis and sometimes death in polio patients may have the potential to cure people with cancerous brain tumors based on early results of a research trial underway at Duke University Medical Center.
Stephanie Lipscomb, 22, learned that she was nearly cancer-free during a checkup at Duke Cancer Center on Monday ? 14 months after a modified version of the poliovirus was injected into her brain to treat a recurring, aggressive cancer known as glioblastoma.
?I?m really pleased; the nodule is almost all gone,? neuro-oncologist Annick Desjardins told Lipscomb, as she examined the young woman?s MRI brain scan...
Tests show woman?s brain cancer responds to new poliovirus treatment at Duke
Published: July 16, 2013 Updated 15 minutes ago
By Renee Elder ? relder@newsobserver.com
DURHAM ? The same virus that causes paralysis and sometimes death in polio patients may have the potential to cure people with cancerous brain tumors based on early results of a research trial underway at Duke University Medical Center.
Stephanie Lipscomb, 22, learned that she was nearly cancer-free during a checkup at Duke Cancer Center on Monday ? 14 months after a modified version of the poliovirus was injected into her brain to treat a recurring, aggressive cancer known as glioblastoma.
?I?m really pleased; the nodule is almost all gone,? neuro-oncologist Annick Desjardins told Lipscomb, as she examined the young woman?s MRI brain scan...