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Commomn cold virus - a new weapon for bladder cancer

Neenu Rachel Santhosh

Abstract

Bladder cancer is the 6th most common cancer among men and is the cause of over seventeen thousand death in United states annually. A strain of common cold virus - coxsackievirus (CVA21) is capable of inducing immunogenic cancer cell death in the bladder. This virus gets rid of the cancer without any side effects.

Keywords

virus, common cold, bladder cancer, treatment

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