Researchers have found that mice with a tumor treated with a viral cancer killer not only have the tumor cured but months later when injected with another tumor have the ability to fight off the tumor themselves - their immune system does so on its own, without any need for more virus cancer tumor killer.
Cancer Vaccine
The procedure used in this study triggered an immune response to cancer cells, which means that it could be used as a cancer vaccine to prevent recurrence.
"We show that if you kill tumor cells directly in the tumor itself, you can get a weak immunity against the tumor, but if you use this virus to kill tumor cells in the lymph nodes, you get a higher immunity against the tumor," Dr. Vile says.
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Makes me wonder if that same learning experience by the immune system would be in play with a viricide treatment for any particular virus such as those under development by Nanoviricides who have viricides which can kill viruses. Perhaps when a flu virus of a particular kind is killed by the viricide the immune system is trained, somehow, to fight off any future viral infection of that particular flu bug without the need for more viricide itself - in effect a vaccine is created in the first instance of treatment.
It is thus envisioned that a vaccine could be created in a healthy person by first giving them the viral infection - then treating it with the viricide, killing it off and thereby providing a long lasting immunity - a vaccination, in effect.
Refs:
John Bell
The promise of viral therapies
Scientists use virus to wipe out cancer cells
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