{"id":6708,"date":"2019-11-21T09:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"human-trials-of-a-virus-that-can-kill-all-types-of-cancer-to-begin-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/21\/human-trials-of-a-virus-that-can-kill-all-types-of-cancer-to-begin-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Trials Of A Virus That Can Kill All Types Of Cancer To Begin Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> By&nbsp;Andrea D. Steffen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two hundred years ago, the cowpox virus was used to end smallpox. Now, scientists have discovered a way to use it to kill every known type of cancer in a laboratory setting. A new virus (based on cowpox) has been engineered by US cancer expert Professor Yuman Fong and is being developed by an Australian biotech company called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imugene.com\/oncolytic-virus\">Imugene<\/a>. They announced it\u2019s ready for human trials, which are set to begin next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treatment is called CF33. It successfully shrunk tumours in mice and killed every kind of cancer in a petri dish. Next, they hope to test it on human patients with breast cancer and other cancers. Prof. Fong and Imugene representatives are currently planning the clinical trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The clinical trial will take place in Australia and other countries. They are calling it a \u201cbasket study.\u201d All patients enrolled will be people with triple-negative breast cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, gastric, bladder, and bowel cancer. By testing it on a variety of cancer types, they will be able to see where the treatment is most effective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/human-trials-virus-kill-all-cancer-begin-next-year\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Andrea D. Steffen Two hundred years ago, the cowpox virus was used to end smallpox. Now, scientists have discovered a way to use it to kill every known type of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}