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Cancer-fighting viruses win approval
« on: October 28, 2015, 05:50:19 pm »
http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-fighting-viruses-win-approval-1.18651

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An engineered herpesvirus that provokes an immune response against cancer has become the first treatment of its kind to be approved for use in the United States, paving the way for a long-awaited class of therapies. On 27 October, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a genetically engineered virus called talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) to treat advanced melanoma. Four days earlier, advisers to the European Medicines Agency had endorsed the drug.
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