Poisons. Radiation. Scalpels. Cancer treatments can sound as dangerous as the disease itself. Standard therapies tend to swipe at cells almost indiscriminately, damaging healthy tissue while killing tumors. The lack of specificity can mean even more misery to an already suffering patient.
A herpesvirus sweeps through gliomas induced in the brains of rats.
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