... some viruses as well as many other things. So it is extremely difficult to prevent cancer from occurring in the first place. Instead we have to be able to kill the cancer after it has invaded the body. There are many techniques available to do this and they are constantly getting better, examples of a few are radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery. (Biological Science review, volume 5, number 1, September 2002) But this still isn't good enough when, according to a article by the BBC published in 2003, only 50.8% of women and only 37.1% of men were still alive 5 years after being diagnosed. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3136874.stm) This means that new ways of fighting cancer are desperately needed and one such way is the use of viruses or virotheropy. Viruses can be harnessed in many ways that make them unique cancer fighting mechanism. This isn't a new idea; 'In 1912 an Italian gynaecology ...

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