Polio Virus Boosts Survival Rates For Patients With Viciously Lethal Brain Tumor

Even with aggressive treatment, people diagnosed with Glioblastoma typically survive less than 20 months, while those with a recurrence usually die within a year. But 21 percent of the patients treated with the polio virus — all with disease that had recurred — were alive after three years. Scientists caution the treatment is in the very early stages.

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