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July 16, 2014 — Dr. John Bell has published an article in Nature Reviews concerning the promise of using immunotherapy in combination with cancer-fighting viruses. Dr. Bell and the co-authors outline how oncolytic viruses can be used to stimulate the body’s immune system to fight against cancerous tumors. The article outlines how oncolytic viruses have been clinically shown to initiate antitumor responses in the human immune system, and that harnessing oncolytic virus therapy with various forms of immunotherapy (vaccines, inhibitors, cell therapy) could significantly improve future outcomes for many cancer patients. Read “Going viral with cancer immunotherapy.”