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Alok?Jha,?science?correspondent　　Thursday?January?11, 2007　　1.The?Guardian1.?British?scientists?are?preparing?to?launch?trials?of?a?radical?new?way?to?fightcancer,?which?kills?tumours?by?infecting?them?with?viruses?like?the?common?cold.　　2.?If?successful,?virus?therapy?could?eventually?form?a?third?pillar?alongside?radiotherapyand?chemotherapy?in?the?standard?arsenal?against?cancer,?while?avoiding?some?of?thedebilitating?side-effects.　　3.?Leonard?Seymour,?a?professor?of?gene?therapy?at?Oxford?University,?who?has?beenworking?on?the?virus?therapy?with?colleagues?in?London?and?the?US,?will?lead?the?trials?laterthis?year.?Cancer?Research?UK?said?yesterday?that?it?was?excited?by?the?potential?of?ProfSeymours?pioneering?techniques.　　4.?One?of?the?countrys?leading?geneticists,?Prof?Seymour?has?been?working?with?virusesthat?kill?cancer?cells?directly,?while?avoiding?harm?to?healthy?tissue. In?principle,?youve?gotsomething?which?could?be?many?times?more?effective?than?regular?chemotherapy,?he?said.　　5.?Cancer-killing?viruses?exploit?the?fact?that?cancer?cells?suppress?the?bodys?localimmune?system. If?a?cancer?doesnt?do?that,?the?immune?system?wipes?it?out.?If?you?can?geta?virus?into?a?tumour,?viruses?find?them?a?very?good?place?to?be?because?theres?no?immunesystem?to?stop?them?replicating.?You?can?regard?it?as?the?cancers?Achilles?heel.6.?Only?a?small?amount?of?the?virus?needs?to?get?to?the?cancer. They?replicate,?you?get?amillion?copies?in?each?cell?and?the?cell?bursts?and?they?infect?the?tumour?cells?adjacent?andrepeat?the?process,?said?Prof?Seymour.　　7.?Preliminary?research?on?mice?shows?that?the?viruses?work?well?on?tumours?resistant?tostandard?cancer?drugs. Its?an?interesting?possibility?that?they?may?have?an?advantage?inkilling?drug-resistant?tumours,?which?could?be?quite?different?to?anything?weve?had?before.　　8.?Researchers?have?known?for?some?time?that?viruses?can?kill?tumour?cells?and?someaspects?of?the?work?have?already?been?published?in?scientific?journals.?Ameri