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Treating Pediatric Cancer with Viruses

Pediatric cancer awareness month (http://bit.ly/18J6YMf) is recognized during September and Nationwide Children's Hospital cancer researchers (http://bit.ly/18J89LK) are studying a potential alternative to treat tumors, while preventing devastating side effects. Dr. Timothy Cripe (http://bit.ly/18J6plI) and his team are looking into how common cold sore viruses can actually help treat children diagnosed with certain types of cancers including neuroblastoma (http://bit.ly/18J9pyp) and sarcoma (http://bit.ly/18J9H8A). The approach is called viral therapy, which involves slightly altering a virus in the lab, injecting it directly into a solid cancer tumor which then causes the tumor to shrink and disappear altogether. For the damage that the virus does to the tumor, it does not have any effect on the healthy tissue surrounding the tumor and cells throughout the body. That means there are very few, if any, side effects from the treatment, and patients would not have to experience the common side effects from chemotherapy including hair loss, fatigue, nausea and weight loss/gain. Viral therapy has been studied in adults, though Nationwide Children's is one of only a few institutions studying it in kids.