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A new cancer therapy? Researchers have discovered a vaccine that destroys tumors

A vaccine that destroys tumors may soon become the most common cancer therapy, according to a study by researchers at Leeds University in Britain.

In the past, scientists had difficulties when it came to destroy tumors without causing side effects.

British researchers took the idea to take a sequence of DNA from tumors and organs showing insert it into the structure of a virus that attacks tumor cells. This procedure results in the immune system, which often ignores the tumors, resulting in the patient's body to fight acestorainformează mirror.co.uk.

Experts from Cancer Research UK said they had made "extraordinary progress" by producing doses of vaccine virus obtained from a bovine.

They used the injection of DNA to successfully treat mice suffering from prostate cancer and hopes that the new method to be used soon, along with chemotherapy to destroy a number of other cancerous tumors.

Studies in humans using other viruses such as herpes, are already underway. The vaccine has the advantage that can be injected directly into the blood. In the past, physicians attempted to inject directly into tumors, but this was difficult.

"The biggest challenge is the production of antigens that target tumors without causing damage to other parts of the body. By using DNA taken from the same side of the body where the tumor is found we could solve this problem. We hope this is new generation of vaccines, and they already look great and promising, "said Professor Alan Melcher of the University of Leeds, who led the study.

The study was published in the medical journal Nature Medicine.