A group of Calgary-based researchers have uncovered a possible treatment for multiple myeloma.
Researchers at the University of Calgary and Tom Baker Cancer Centre have finished a multi-year study in which scientists injected the common reovirus into animals with multiple myeloma.
The study found the virus killed the cancer cells without damaging normal, healthy cells.
This year, there have been 2,400 new cases of multiple myeloma in Canada
Scientists are excited to see where the study will lead research in the future.
"It lays the foundation for future clinical trials,” says Chandini Thirukkumaran, a University of Calgary researcher. “Clinicians can start clinical trials confidently because we have shown the virus can travel to the bone marrow, find these myeloma cells and kill them.”
The research will be published in the international medical journal “Clinical Cancer Research”.
