Revista de virología e investigación antiviral

Virotherapy: Brief Overview

Akhila Sabbineni*

New cancer therapies with novel mechanisms and functions are needed. Virotherapy is an outstanding example of such treatment. The ability to induce tumour destruction through a variety of pathways, as well as the possible lack of cross resistance with conventional therapies, is the benefits of virotherapy. The oncolytic virus not only has special mechanisms of action that aren't present in any other virus.