Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Bacillus Calmette Guérin vaccine

  • Using bacteria in cancer therapy

    Andy TayLos Angeles, California, United States Cancer is a complex disease whose various causes include bacterial infections such as Helicobacter pylori leading to gastric cancer.1 Bacteria, however, can also be used to treat cancer, a treatment so effective against high grade non-invasive bladder cancer that since 1990, it has remained the preferred therapy.2 The history…