Scientist's Self-Treatment with Lab-Grown Viruses Sparks Ethical Debate

Beata Halassy, a virologist, successfully treated her stage 3 breast cancer using lab-grown viruses, sparking an ethical debate over self-experimentation. Her approach, known as oncolytic virotherapy, involved injecting her tumor with a measles virus and a vesicular stomatitis virus. While Halassy has been cancer-free for four years, experts caution against emulating her method due to ethical concerns and the potential for patients to bypass traditional treatments. Despite initial publication rejections, Halassy's case report was eventually published, highlighting the complex ethics of self-experimentation in medical research.