I am not thrilled that the Mayo Clinic researchers were able to successfully treat an end-stage cancer patient using a genetically modified measles virus. Could ordinary childhood measles contracted from the natural virus in the wild provide lifelong antibodies that can prevent cancerous cells from forming?

Measles is a natural cancer killer
Bryan Hubbard
What Doctors Don't Tell You
April 12th 2019

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Health authorities may want to think twice about eradicating measles: researchers are discovering that the virus can fight cancer, and in one case dissolved a golf ball-sized tumor in just 36 hours.

The virus makes cancer cells join together and explode, explains Mayo Clinic researcher Dr Angela Dispenzieri. It also stimulates the immune system to detect any recurring cancer cells and 'mops them up'.

Although it's been recognised for a long time that measles and other viruses are natural cancer fighters—it's known as virotherapy—the dose seems to be an important factor. Dispenzieri and her Mayo colleagues engineered, or genetically modified, the measles virus strain, and gave it in a dose strong enough to vaccinate 10 million people to a woman with end-stage multiple myeloma.

Virotherapy was a last-resort therapy as the 49-year-old woman had endured every type of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants without success.

A response was immediate. Within five minutes, the doctors say she developed a splitting headache and a temperature of 105 degrees F. before she started vomiting and shaking. A tumor the size of a golf ball had disappeared inside 36 hours, and all signs of cancer had disappeared from her body within two weeks.