A scanning electron micrograph of pancreatic cancer cells
ANNE WESTON, EM STP, THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A virus has stopped pancreatic cancer in its tracks in three people in a clinical trial in the US. Further evaluation is needed in larger trials, but the early results are encouraging, especially since only small doses of the virus were administered for initial safety testing.
“We only injected one-tenth of the dose we are eventually aiming at, so the efficacy is better than I expected, especially as this is pancreatic cancer,” says Masato Yamamoto at the University of Minnesota, who led the development of the viral treatment.
