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health1 year ago

Scientist Uses Lab-Grown Virus to Treat Her Own Cancer, Sparking Ethical Debate

Croatian virologist Beata Halassy successfully treated her own breast cancer using lab-grown viruses, avoiding chemotherapy. Her self-administered oncolytic virotherapy, involving measles and vesicular stomatitis viruses, led to a significant tumor reduction and a four-year cancer-free period. While her case highlights the potential of oncolytic virotherapy, it raises ethical concerns about self-experimentation and the risk of encouraging unproven treatments. Despite initial journal rejections due to ethical issues, Halassy published her findings to contribute to scientific knowledge.

via The Economic Times|
#breast-cancer#ethics#health
health1 year ago

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.

via Interesting Engineering|
#breast-cancer#cancer#ethics
health1 year ago

Virologist Uses Lab-Grown Viruses to Treat Her Own Cancer

Dr. Beata Halassy, an infectious disease researcher, successfully treated her stage 3 breast cancer using a self-developed experimental vaccine combining measles and flu-like viruses. This oncolytic virotherapy approach shrank the tumor, allowing for easier surgical removal, and has kept her in remission for four years. While her results, published in the journal Vaccines, show promise, they raise ethical concerns about self-experimentation and potential risks for others attempting similar treatments without medical oversight.

via Daily Mail|
#breast-cancer#cancer#ethics