When Beata Halassy learned in summer 2020 that her breast cancer had come back, she made a bold decision. As a virologist at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, she knew that researchers around the world were testing virus-based cancer treatments that could avoid the destructive side effects of conventional treatments like chemotherapy.

Publishing her findings proved to be a significant challenge due to ethical concerns surrounding self-experimentation.

A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast cancer by self-administe

Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.

Dr. Beata Halassy, a 49-year-old virologist, self-treated her recurrent breast cancer with OVT, a method that leverages viruses to target and shrink tumors.

Halassy self-administered an experimental treatment usually reserved for patients with advanced or resistant cancers.

Using viruses in what’s called oncolytic virotherapy (OVT), virologist Beata Halassy reworked two viruses to successfully treat her stage-three breast cancer

As per several reports online, a scientist, Beata Halassy (49), recently successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses. A case report published in ‘Vaccines’ described the case as ‘unconventional’ and ‘unique’.

A scientist successfully treated her own Stage 3 breast cancer by injecting the tumor with viruses she grew in her lab. The unique case is described in a controversial report published in August in the journal Vaccines.