Oracle-funded study improves treatment prospects for cancer patients

Read the ICR’s latest blog post about the success of our recent Oracle-funded study into combining radiotherapies with viruses to improve treatment prospects for cancer patients.

Oracle-funded scientists at the ICR and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust combined the oncolytic reovirus RT3D, with radiotherapy to treat melanoma, and found that the combination was much more effective than separate treatments.

Read the full report here:

https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/radiotherapy-supercharges-cancer-targeting-viruses-to-treat-deadly-skin-cancer

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