When Beata Halassy learned in summer 2020 that her breast cancer had come back, she made a bold decision. As a virologist at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, she knew that researchers around the world were testing virus-based cancer treatments that could avoid the destructive side effects of conventional treatments like chemotherapy.
Halassy, who studies viruses for a living, decided to test some of them on herself. With her oncologists’ approval, she made herself a test subject and worked with colleagues to inject herself with two types of viruses that she cultivated in a lab. Over several weeks, her homegrown remedy caused her tumor to shrink, enabling surgeons to remove it.
Halassy, who studies viruses for a living, decided to test some of them on herself. With her oncologists’ approval, she made herself a test subject and worked with colleagues to inject herself with two types of viruses that she cultivated in a lab. Over several weeks, her homegrown remedy caused her tumor to shrink, enabling surgeons to remove it.
