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Researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine are helping develop an alternative treatment for breast cancer.

Genetic engineering of the non-life threatening herpes virus has allowed them to destroy breast cancer cells without harming normal cells.

According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is responsible for one in three cancers detected in women.

“You put a tumor in the back of a mouse and use the herpes virus to inactivate the tumor,” he said. “The virus is injected into the tumor and then digests the tumor. It basically eliminates the cancer.”

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Hat Tip: The Daily Reveille