Measles: A Cure for Cancer?

Well, at least potentially prostate cancer according to a new study.

Prostate cancer is a leading cause death among males in the western world. It is currently the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths among American men with 186,320 new cases and 28,660 deaths expected to be recorded in 2008. A sizeable proportion of these patients ultimately relapse, with a 5-year failure rate for treatment ranging from 14 to 34 percent. No curative therapy is currently available for locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer

However, according to a report in Science Daily there may be a potential cure in the form of virotherapy using certain measles vaccine strains. The full article can be read here.