Cancer cure together with its direct causes is an enigma yet be fully solved by experts. However, with the latest cancer treatment breakthrough, viruses may hold the solution.

Treatment for cancer has never reached hundred percent success rate. There would always be some uncertainties whether it is via chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or drug compound. However, such scenario might soon change with the introduction a method that utilizes virus to fight tumor cells.

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Experts at IDIBAPS Biomedical Research Institute and at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona managed to design a new strategy to get genetically modified viruses to selective attack cancer cells. Such method would somehow elicit less adverse effect for healthy tissues will not be affected, unlike the current cancer treatment available.

Conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy have long been known to cause side-effects. These known cancer treatments lack the technology to select their target. Thus, making it a relatively poor cancer cure.

"In this study we have worked with adenoviruses, a family of viruses that can cause infections of the respiratory tract, the urinary tract, conjunctivitis or gastroenteritis but which have features that make them very attractive to be used in the therapy against tumors," Science Daily quoted head of the Gene Therapy and Cancer Group at IDIBAPS, Cristina Fillat, as saying.

The mechanism of this latest cancer treatment is unique that it allows the virus to replicate itself as they enter into tumor cells. Such approach is highly potent for ones the virus has destroyed a cancer cell, more particles of the virus will potentially infect more cancer cells in the body.

Meanwhile, in a much-related news, a French biotech firm is also hoping to gain approval for a nuclear medicine that would target the type of cancer that killed Steve Jobs, according to Fortune. Clinical test trials have shown impressive results against the dreaded diseases, making it another promising cancer cure in the making.

Watch here below how cancer cell spread in the body: