Train of thought update

[herewiss13]

Anyone who still remembers my "cancer as a research medium for virii" train of thought will be pleased to know that I've been beaten to the punch.  While reading (re-reading, actually) "The Demon in the Freezer" by Richard Preston (in re: Anthrax & Smallpox), I stumbled across a single sentence in which the scientist is described culturing pox virii in a test-tube of cervical cancer cells...a cell culture that was collected from a tumor in the 1950s and has been cultivated and used ever since.

...the book did not then go on to mention if the next step: onco-phage virii were in the works...but the author was dealing with other, more infectious subjects.

*Googles*

There's a cancer vaccine treatment called Oncophage but it doesn't appear to be viral in nature.