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b12345 -> RE: Now, HPV can help fight cancer? (5/17/2007 4:44:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
It's a genetically modified virus. Not sure off all the details but they claim the virus can only infect cancer cells which the virus kills.
Now for a little bit of opinion, this is a very bad idea. Virus mutate quite quickly and are very hard to completely eradicate from an infected person. It is only a matter of time before someone getting treated for cancer develops some other nasty problem due to the viral treatment mutating into something able to infect normal cells.
Possibly true, and certainly a valid concern, but in an otherwise terminal patient it may be worth the risk. I mean is the potential of virus mutation really worse than loading a person up with poison and sticking them in the microwave, which is more or less the current practice. I hope this avenue of treatment proves to be at least somewhat successful, and doesn’t have too many negative unintended consequences.
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