It is the most limited form of evidence in medicine.
One person, one outcome, no control group, no way to separate the effect of the viruses from the many other variables that influence the course of any individual cancer.
Halassy’s cancer may have responded to the viral injections precisely as the data suggest.
It may also have been on a trajectory that would have allowed surgical removal regardless.
There is no way to know, and this is not a technicality.
People should always use all of the research methodologies at their disposal. I totally agree with your analysis, while also giving possible credence to the fact this might be true for that individual.
Absolutely. It highlights a curious direction of study, but doesn’t in itself prove anything. It might also be dangerous.
But still worth properly exploring, right.
Researchers have been developing oncolytic viruses for 25 years. Until 2025 when most of the world’s cancer research was ended by Trump.
Nah. Cancer said prove it and her next shot rimmed out so the game is still going.
About 5% of cancers spontaneously remit because the immune response is suddenly activated. It was coincident.
It very much could be. But we need more data to prove it one way or another.
it would give good starting point for proper research though
People should always use all of the research methodologies at their disposal. I totally agree with your analysis, while also giving possible credence to the fact this might be true for that individual.
And of course, the huge assumption she is telling the truth.