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US scientists believe it can become a single shot cure for cancer. A potent dose of engineered measles virus has been shown for the first time to have completely wiped out a woman’s cancer. The 49-year-old patient was diagnosed with a kind of bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma. She was given an intravenous dose of measles virus, known as MV-NIS, that is selectively toxic to myeloma plasma cells. Despite some side effects early on, including a severe headache, the tumor on her forehead soon disappeared and her bone marrow cleared.
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