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Poliovirus--fact or fiction What is this ?

 
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:06 am    Post subject: Poliovirus--fact or fiction Reply with quote
I was browsing the web for information on my type of brain tumor, as I'm sure most people here would, mine being oligodendroglioma. I noticed this information on two web sites. It sounds like a miracle cure that nobody is in any hurry to bring to people who have very little hope anyway. Is this a case of, Too Good To Be True?

[url]http://www.netbiosciencenews.com/NR/2001/June01/poliovirus061901.htm[/url]

So, since this is dated 2001, what have they been doing on this? I don't think I've seen anything recent that discusses it.

[url]http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=2&num=332&printer=1[/url]

[url]http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/12/6803[/url]

If this is a viable treatment, I'm wondering when it will be ready for testing on consenting adults. It apparently kills brain tumors in weeks or days.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Poliovirus--fact or fiction Reply with quote
Greg,

Unfortunately any therapy where a potentially lethal virus is modified and injected into humans will take a lot of time to be approved. The virus can cause a lot of problems both immediatelly and long-term. So scientists will have to have a lot of evidence in animals that this is a safe therapy. But it is encouraging.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:26 am    Post subject: Yeah, it could be dangerous Reply with quote
[sarcasm]Yeah, it could be dangerous. You could kill someone a few years after the brain tumor would have killed them.[/sarcasm]

On the other hand, what I'm facing is probably better than Polio.
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