Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S., and it has increased dramatically in the last 50 years. Melanoma, ...

One-in-six patients treated with the modified virus as part of a clinical trial saw their tumors disappear completely.

may cause painful cold sores or fever blisters around the mouth. Yet, when genetically engineered to fight cancer, the virus ...

University of Southern California researchers have found a way to rebrand this oft-embarrassing sore subject by genetically modifying HSV-1 and administering it to patients with treatment-resistant, ...

A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma ...

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A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital shows that patients diagnosed with the ...

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