11/14/2024

A Scientist Experimented on Herself to Treat her Cancer

Her experiment worked

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, the science journal Nature reported. Over several weeks, her homegrown remedy caused her tumor to shrink, enabling surgeons to remove it.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.