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Victoria Forster

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hospital for Sick Children

Expertise: Pediatric cancers, Effects of chemotherapy

Daily Mail article misleads with clickbait headline claiming cowpox-derived virus will “kill every type of cancer”

“This article substantially overhypes early pre-clinical work with a viral therapy that has not yet been tested in even the earliest stages of human clinical trials. The headline is particularly misleading as I can find only three published papers suggesting the therapy has efficacy in lung, breast and colorectal cancers in cell lines and mouse models only.”