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Post by Guest Fri May 16, 2014 10:48 am

Her name is Stacy Erholtz. For years, the 50-year-old mom from Pequot Lakes, Minn., battled myeloma, a blood cancer that affects bone marrow. She had few options left.
She had been through chemotherapy treatments and two stem cell transplants. But it wasn’t enough. Soon, scans showed she had tumors growing all over her body.
One grew on her forehead, destroying a bone in her skull and pushing on her brain. Her children named it Evan, her doctor said. Cancer had infiltrated her bone marrow.

So, as part of a two-patient clinical trial, doctors at the Mayo Clinic injected Erholtz with 100 billion units of the measles virus – enough to inoculate 10 million people.
Her doctor said they were entering the unknown.
Five minutes into the hour-long process, Erholtz got a terrible headache. Two hours later, she started shaking and vomiting. Her temperature hit 105 degrees, Stephen Russell, the lead researcher on the case, told The Washington Post early Thursday morning.
“Thirty-six hours after the virus infusion was finished, she told me, ‘Evan has started shrinking,’” Russell said. Over the next several weeks, the tumor on her forehead disappeared completely and, over time, the other tumors in her body did, too.
Russell said he and his team had engineered the virus to make it more suitable for cancer therapy. And, after just one dose of it, Erholtz’s cancer went into remission. She has been completely cleared of the disease, Russell wrote in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Though, in this trial, the treatments were successful on only one of the two patients.
And Tanios Bekaii-Saab, a researcher at James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Ohio, said the study must be confirmed in large randomized clinical trials — where many hopes get dashed, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
“Unless we get to the third stage of development, we are cautiously optimistic,” he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/15/womans-cancer-killed-by-measles-virus-in-unprecedented-trial/

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Post by Guest Fri May 16, 2014 10:50 am

this has already been posted didge yesterday i think.

good news though

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Post by Raggamuffin Fri May 16, 2014 10:50 am

http://www.newsfixboard.com/t4705-massive-dose-of-measles-vaccine-clears-woman-s-cancer?highlight=measles
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Post by Guest Fri May 16, 2014 10:51 am

Vicar of Dibley wrote:this has already been posted didge yesterday i think.

good news though



Too many threads to keep up with, sorry must have missed it, very interesting though, more tests will need to be done

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Post by Guest Fri May 16, 2014 11:27 am

Didge wrote:
Vicar of Dibley wrote:this has already been posted didge yesterday i think.

good news though



Too many threads to keep up with, sorry must have missed it, very interesting though, more tests will need to be done
yeah it is and very good news for the lady too Smile

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