A rabbit virus could hold hope for people suffering with colorectal cancer, say researchers from the University of Otago.
The new vaccine therapy uses a modified form of rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD), and there are hopes that the approach could be modified to target other cancers, too.
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“This therapy uses harmless viral shells derived from RCD, also known as rabbit haemorrhagic disease, to deliver immunising tumour proteins and the same approach could also be applied to a wide range of human cancers, researchers say.
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“Mice with induced tumours usually lived no longer than 40 days, but 60 percent of them lived for 80 days or more after a single dose of the VLP vaccine, the researchers found.”