A woman who had been living with incurable blood cancer for a decade was cured by a massive dose of measles vaccine.
A woman who had been living with incurable blood cancer for a decade was cured by a massive dose of measles vaccine.
The amount she was given was 10 thousand times greater than the standard measure, and contained over 100 billion infectious units.
According to the patient, it was the easiest treatment she’d ever received, and she’d been through all of them.
The fact that none of them worked is one of the factors that qualified her for the Mayo Clinic’s experimental approach.
She, along with a second patient, were also selected because they were immune compromised and had a history of limited exposure to the measles.
All of those attributes are important, as in order for the vaccine to work as a cancer treatment, the body must be unable to quickly fight off the active measles virus in it.
That way, once the body is triggered into self-defense mode, it has ample time to work on eradicating the cancer.
Unfortunately the second patient’s treatment did not last and the technique still needs a great deal of research and refinement. However the single success has given the doctors hope.
Their desire is to eventually develop their current trials and methods into a single-shot cure.
