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Speaking of cancer, Medical News Today recently ran a very surprising and encouraging story headlined, “Dose of Measles Virus Destroys Woman’s Incurable Cancer.”

In what they describe as a proof of principle study, Mayo Clinic researchers were able to keep a woman with deadly multiple myeloma – an incurable bone marrow cancer – free of all signs of living cancer cells for over 6 months by giving her just one extremely high dose of measles virus directly into the bloodstream.

The study included two patients, and both responded, but one of the patients experienced a complete remission.

In short, the researchers found that measles virus has cancer-suppressing properties. Senior author Dr. Angela Dispenzieri, a multiple myeloma expert, said the measles virus essentially makes the cancer cells fuse together and explode. The treatment also appears to trigger another lasting benefit:

“There’s some suggestion that it may be stimulating the patient’s immune system to further recognize the cancer cells or the myeloma cells and help mop that up more effectively than otherwise.”

Lead author Dr. Stephen Russell said they have recently started considering “a single shot cure for cancer, and that’s our goal with this therapy.”

Anyway, it’s terrific news, and they need to hurry up. Because you know why.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-antivaxxer-parents-considering-throwing-mea,37997/

Local media in California have reported that some anti-vaxxer parents are considering throwing “measles parties” at which unvaccinated children can come in contact with infected children in order to contract the disease and build up a natural immunity.