Oncolytic virotherapy offers new approach in treating brain tumors

For Jennifer Amsley and daughter Xia Martinez of Maryland, an oncolytic virotherapy study at Children ’s of Alabama has strengthened their resolve to fight and their desire for a sense of normalcy. Xia, 14, has an aggressive glioma brain tumor and an MRI showed new growth. That’s when doctors in Maryland informed Xia and her family of a clinical trial conducted by Dr. Gregory Friedman, associat e professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Children’s, and scientist…
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