Poliovirus treatment helped patients with deadly brain tumors live longer
A modified form of the virus increased survival in some people with glioblastoma
![MRI images](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/062618_AC_poliovirus_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
GOING, GOING… These MRI images show a patient’s glioblastoma tumor eventually shrinking after being dosed with an altered poliovirus. The bottom row shows the tumor a year after treatment (left), at two years (middle) and at nearly five years (right).
A. Desjardins et al/New England Journal of Medicine 2018