Rabbit Virus Vaccine for Cancer.
A University of Otago team has developed a potential cure for colo-rectal cancer based on a virus that affects rabbits. The therapy is now moving closer to human trials, the ODT reported last week. Dr Sarah Young, an immunologist at the University of Otago, says the treatment is “like gold in our hands.” In tests on mice, it has performed remarkably in attacking tumors. The researchers hope to move to human trials within a relatively short time frame, perhaps as soon as late 2011.