>> Janine: IN TODAY'S HEALTH
CAST A REVOLUTIONARY WAY TO
TREAT TO A DEADLY FORM OF BRAIN
CANCER THAT I USUALLY
INOPERABLE LOCAL10 MEDICAL
SPECIALIST KRISTI KRUEGER TELLS
US HOW A MUCH MALIGNED VIRUS IS
NOW HELPING PARENTS HEAL.
>> Kristi: NOT LONG AGO MATT
FOODER WAS FACING A DEVASTATING
DIAGNOSES.
HE WHAT IS RUSH TO THE HOSPITAL
WHERE DOCTORS DISCOVERED A TUMOR
COVERING MOST OF THE LEFT SIDE
OF HIS BRAIN.
GIVEN JUST A FEW MONTHS TO LIVE,
DOCTORS THERE TRUDE SOMETHING
UNIQUE INJECTING MATT WITH A
ENFORCEMENT HERPES VIRUS.
IT'S TYPE OF GENE THERAPY.
>> GENE THERAPY IS LIKE A
TROJANAN HORSE.
YOU GET SOMETHING TO BRING
SOMETHING INTO THE BRAIN OR INTO
THE TUMOR THAT THE TUMOR LETS IN
AND THEN ONCE IT'S IN, YOU TURN
ON A SWITCH OF SOME SORT, AND
YOU KILL THE TUMOR.
>> Kristi: THE PATIENT WON'T
ACTUALLY GET HERPES BUT WITH
FASTER HERPES DNA INSIDE
THESUMER TUMOR DOCTORS NOW HAVE
A WAY TO DESTROY IT.
>> WE WAIT WITH A LITTLE BIT OF
TIME.
THE VIRUS SPREADS THROUGH THE
BRAIN.
THEN WE GIVE THE PATIENT VAL
TREKS.
VAL TREKS IS A DRUG FOR COLD
SORES WHICH IS HERPES TYPE ONE.
>> Kristi: AT THE FIVE-YEAR MARK
MATT HAD ABSOLUTELY NO TUMOR
LEFT.
ALTHOUGH HE IS UNABLE TO WORK
RIGHT NOW, HE CALLS HIS LIFE A
MIRACLE.
>> THE QUESTION IN MY MIND IS I
MADE IT THIS FAR.
HOW MUCH FURTHER CAN I GO.
>> Kristi: MATT IS NOW ABOUT TEN
YEARS OUT FROM THAT ORIGINAL
TREATMENT, AND ALTHOUGH HE HAS
SOME OTHER HEALTH ISSUES, HIS
DOCTOR CONSIDERS HIM A BRAIN
SCANNERS CANCER SURVIVOR.
