X-Message-Number: 10768 From: "Olaf Henny" <> Subject: Reovirus May Cure Cancer Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:41:00 -0800 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01BE0E85.23E67E60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Reovirus May Cure Cancer Report will be published in today's "Science" A research team in the University of Calgary led by Dr. Patrick Lee has established that a human reovirus injected into human derived cancers in mice will (quoting the TV report as closely as I can remember) "uses the signal that makes the cancer grow to reproduce itself and kill the cancerous cells." The virus has apparently been successful in the healing of brain (I am not sure if I heard this one correctly), breast and prostate cancers. Human trials are expected to begin in 18 months at the earliest. Best, Olaf [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01BE0E85.23E67E60 Content-Type: text/html; Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10768