New treatment for PCa using a virus

Hi

Have been watching a fascinating series on BBC 2 called Surgeons on the edge of life.  It shows some of the ops being done in the 42 operating theaters  of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.  (What a difference from the ancient former hospital there where I had my second opinion in 2007/8).  Last night (Monday), was of particular interest as one of the ops was for Gene Therapy for PCa.  Briefly, this featured a trial whereby in simple terms, a man had a modified cold virus injected into tumours in his prostate.  This attaches to cancer cells and subsequently the man is given an injection which kills the virus infected cells.  Of course it is not known how this will work out in the long term but it minimizes the damage to non cancerous cells ,so potentially could be a very good step forward.

It can be viewed on BBC 2 Catch up.   I do wish those making programs would see one operation through rather than switching backwards and forwards between several ops but nothing one can do about that

PS  It can be got on I Player here https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09pvnhc/surgeons-at-the-edge-of-life-series-1-3-the-pioneers#

Edited by member 23 Jan 2018 at 21:24  | Reason: Not specified

Hi Graham,

It sometimes happens that two people say much the same but because new subjects are delayed by moderation, they then start threads on the same subject unbeknown to each other. This seems to have been the case here and due to the way the forum is arranged is unavoidable.