City of Hope developed cancer-killing virus: activates immune system against colon cancer

(City of Hope) A cancer-killing virus that City of Hope scientists developed could one day improve the immune system's ability to eradicate tumors in colon cancer patients, reports a new study in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. The preclinical research is a first step to showing that City of Hope's oncolytic virus CF33 can target hard-to-treat tumors that 'handcuff' the immune system and keep T cells from activating the immune system to kill cancer cells.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news