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Marilynn Marchione April 11, 2021 - 11:01 PM
For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded scienceâs best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kidsâ brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack.
A dozen children treated this way lived more than twice as long as similar patients have in the past, doctors reported Saturday at an American Association for Cancer Research conference and in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Although most of them eventually died of their disease, a few are alive and well several years after treatment something virtually unheard of in this situation.
Using virus to kill child brain tumors ‘a critical step,’ UAB specialist says
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In this Aug. 5, 2019 photo provided by Children’s Of Alabama, Dr. Gregory Friedman, a childhood cancer specialist, looks through a microscope at a laboratory in Birmingham, Ala. Friedman is leading a study to treat a deadly type of childhood cancer with a treatment that involves infusing viruses directly into the brain to spur an immune system response to the cancerous cells. (Denise McGill/Children’s Of Alabama via AP)AP
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For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded science’s best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kids’ brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack.
BHP (-0.2%); said the decision by its Brazilian joint venture with Vale SA to file for judicial reorganization is a last-resort response to legal actions from creditors in the US and Brazil.
Commonwealth Bank (-0.5%); has lowered its end-2021 unemployment forecast to 5% from 5.5%.
Imugene (+5.5%); has just presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual meeting.
Worley (-0.5%); has been awarded a maintenance and integrity contract for services to support Petroleum Development Oman’s strategic oil and gas production assets in the South Oman concession region.
An interview with US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has just aired on US 60 Minutes. Some of the things he said;
Giving early-stage pancreatic cancer patients a CD40 immune-stimulating drug helped jumpstart a T cell attack to the notoriously stubborn tumor microenvironment before surgery and other treatments, according to a new study from researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) at the University of Pennsylvania.