Scientists successfully create cowpox-style virus that can kill all types of cancer

In a breakthrough development in the world of medicine, scientists have managed to develop a new virus based on cowpox that is able to kill every known type of cancer cell.

The treatment, called CF33, can kill every type of cancer in a petrie dish and has shrunk tumours in mice, The Daily Telegraph reported.

US cancer expert Professor Yuman Fong is engineering the treatment, which is being developed by Australia biotech company Imugene. They are hoping the treatment will be tested on breast cancer patients, among other cancer sufferers, next year.   

Patients with triple negative breast cancer, melanoma, lung cancer, bladder, gastric and bowel cancer would be tested in the ‘basket study’.  

Success with mice does not ensure the virus will be able to treat humans, but  Professor Fong remains positive, as other specific viruses have been effective in fighting cancer in humans.  

Read more here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7664927/Breakthrough-scientists-create-new-cowpox-style-virus-kill-type-cancer.html