Vaccine Treatment for Brain Tumours

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Hello All,

Again, I was reading the Economist and they have an article regarding a crude

vaccine they created to kill a cytomegalovirus in patients with glioblastomas.

It caught my eye since my poor father died of a nasty glioblastoma brain tumor

eleven years ago. This is a really nasty brain tumor and most patients are lucky

to live two years once diagnosed (actually, even one year for that matter).

According to the article, this virus is found inactive in about 80 percent of

the population. However, they discovered that this virus is active in the actual

brain tumor but not active in the surrounding healthy brain tissue around it.

Anyway, so far, the patients lives have been extended for another year. This is

huge.

My question, could this vaccine help patients?

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11449797

Thanks,

Jill