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Biotech / Medical : NNVC - NanoViricides, Inc.
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From: donpat2/24/2006 9:26:21 PM
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Virus Found in Prostate Cancer May Help in Developing Treatment

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A virus found in prostate cancer may suggest new ways to treat the disease, researchers said.

A study found that 40 percent of 20 cancerous prostates removed from patients with a certain genetic mutation had the virus, a researcher said. It may take three to five years to determine if the virus causes the cancer, he said.

Other cancers are also thought to be caused by viruses, including liver cancer and cervical cancer. Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC are in the process of developing vaccines against the virus that causes cervical cancer.

``This is the very beginning'' of studies on the prostate virus, said co-author Robert Silverman, a Cleveland Clinic researcher, in a telephone interview today. ``What is remarkable about this study is the virus appears almost exclusively in men that have a mutation in the prostate cancer susceptible gene.''

The study, presented today at the Prostate Cancer Symposium in San Francisco, was done by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of California, San Francisco.

-- Editor: Gale.

bloomberg.com

I notice the cancer-virus commentary, of some considerable duration and continuing of late.

Interesting!
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