Virotherapy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of genetically modified viruses to treat cancer. countable, uncountable

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"A new study has, for the first time, demonstrated that a specific kind of virotherapy can infect and kill cancer in humans, leaving healthy cells unharmed."

Etymology

From viro- + therapy.

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genetically modified

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