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So the article states that the virus was injected directly into the tumor for two-months. And then she was treated with surgery and a HER2 blocker. So this will not work for metastatic cancer at all.

>> Analysis of the tumour after removal showed that it was thoroughly infiltrated with immune cells called lymphocytes, suggesting that the OVT had worked as expected and provoked Halassy’s immune system to attack both the viruses and the tumour cells. “An immune response was, for sure, elicited,” says Halassy. After the surgery, she received a year’s treatment with the anticancer drug trastuzumab.



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