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Published online 20 June 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010621-6
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Measles vaccine shrinks tumours
The attenuated measles virus is a promising anti-cancer agent.
The measles virus could help to treat a kind of cancer. US researchers have found that, in mice at least, the attenuated form of the virus, which has been used as a vaccine for the past 30 years, shrinks some tumours1.
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