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Virologist Beata Halassy treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab - Clover - Nov 10 2024
What a badass
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03647-0
Quote:A scientist who successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses[.]
Beata Halassy discovered in 2020, aged 49, that she had breast cancer at the site of a previous mastectomy. It was the second recurrence there since her left breast had been removed, and she couldn’t face another bout of chemotherapy.
Halassy, a virologist at the University of Zagreb, studied the literature and decided to take matters into her own hands with an unproven treatment.
A case report published in Vaccines in August1 outlines how Halassy self-administered a treatment called oncolytic virotherapy (OVT) to help treat her own stage 3 cancer. She has now been cancer-free for four years.