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Researchers Manipulate Poliovirus To Treat Rare Brain Cancer

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An electron micrograph of the poliovirus. (CDC/ Dr. Fred Murphy, Sylvia Whitfield via Wikimedia Commons)
An electron micrograph of the poliovirus. (CDC/ Dr. Fred Murphy, Sylvia Whitfield via Wikimedia Commons)

Researchers have manipulated poliovirus with the common cold virus to extend the lives of people with glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive brain tumor.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Dr. Darell Bigner, a cancer research professor at the Duke University Medical Center, about how the treatment prolongs the lives of some patients with cancer.

This segment aired on July 17, 2018.

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