Scientist cures her breast cancer with viruses
June 17, 2026
Last updated: June 20, 2026
Dr. Beata Halassy, a 50-year old PhD virologist, recently helped cure her recurrent breast cancer through careful medical self-experimentation. Specifically, she treated her cancer by injecting a series of laboratory-grown cancer-fighting viruses directly into the tumor, thus shrinking the tumor and making it amenable to curative surgery.
Dr. Halassy also attempted to share her successful result in a scientific journal, but her paper was rejected more than a dozen times before the journal Vaccines finally accepted it. The other journals’ objections were not about the scientific merit of her work, but were rather ethical objections—namely, “publishing her results could encourage others to reject conventional treatment and try something similar.”