Strain of common cold virus could treat cancer cells in bladder

Updated:6 years, 3 months ago

New Delhi, July 08 (ANI): A recent study discovered that a strain of the common cold virus may potentially target, infect and destroy cancer cells in patients with bladder cancer. Researchers investigated the safety and tolerability of exposure to the oncolytic (‘cancer-killing’) virus coxsackievirus (CVA21), a naturally occurring strain of the common cold, in fifteen patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). NMIBC is found in the tissue of the inner surface of the bladder. NMIBC is found in the tissue of the inner surface of the bladder and is the tenth most common cancer in UK with approximately 10,000 people each year diagnosed with the illness, reported the study published in the journal of Clinical Cancer Research. Current treatments for this cancer are problematic. Transurethral resection, an invasive procedure that removes all visible lesions, has a high tumour recurrence rate ranging from 50% to 70% as well as a high tumour progression rate between 10 % and 20% over a period of two to five years. The virus was found to have infected cancerous cells and replicated itself causing the cells to rupture and die. Following treatment with the virus-cell death was identified in the majority of the patients’ tumours.

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Strain of common cold virus could treat cancer cells in bladder

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