cancer cure to be tested

Doug Skrecky (oberon@vcn.bc.ca)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:05:06 -0700 (PDT)

>From the October 22,1999 edition of the National Post newspaper:

Calgary - Human testing of a potential cure for cancer has approved by Health Canada and is scheduled to begin in the spring. A spokeswomen for Synsorb Biotech Inc. said a group of 30 cancer patients will take part in phase one clinical testing to see how they will react to injections of a benign virus - proven to succssfully kill cancer cells in mice. Calgary-based Dr. Patrick Lee led the team of scientists who made the discovery.