THREE patients with incurable neck and head cancer have survived for three
years after being treated with a combination of chemotherapy and a cold virus
that has been modified to attack tumours.
“All these patients were considered no-hopers beforehand,” says Fadlo Khuri,
head of the team that developed the treatment. All three have remained free of
the disease for three years. Patients with head and neck cancer seldom survive
for longer than six months to one year when treated with chemotherapy alone.
Khuri and his colleagues, based at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the
University of Texas in…
