Genetically engineered virus extends the lives of terminally-ill liver cancer patients

[SidDithers]

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/news/archive/cancernews/2013-02-11-Genetically-engineered-virus-extends-the-lives-of-terminally-ill-liver-cancer-patients

A genetically-engineered virus has prolonged the lives of terminally ill liver cancer patients in a small clinical trial.

The results will need confirming in larger studies, but Cancer Research UK welcomed the advance as "an exciting step forward".

The partially disabled cowpox virus, known as Pexa-Vec or JX-594, was given to 30 patients with advanced liver cancer during the study.

Sixteen patients given a high dose of the vaccine survived for an average of 14.1 months, compared with 6.7 months for the 14 who received the low dose, according to the findings published in Nature Medicine.

GMO!! Bad!! Ewwww!!. Monsatan!!!

Sid

[djean111]

1. Oh - I thought GMOs had no effect on us. Interesting.

[whatchamacallit]

2. Yes Sid, all genetic engineering is the same and all beneficial

Thanks for another well reasoned post...

[SidDithers]

3. You might want to have a discussion with the poster in reply #1...

who really does seem to think that all genetic modification is the same.

And they're representative of a not insignificant portion of the DU population.

Sid

[whatchamacallit]

4. Funny, for a "critical thinker"

your auto-support of potentially dangerous corporate technology, is amazingly... faith based.