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As for oncolytic viruses which you added to the Cancer Cure of Laura Roslin, a lot of these viruses were artificially engineered, though there have been some experiments with natural occuring viruses. Viruses also aren't cells and vice versa, so Cylon cells couldn't mimic their function -to infect, multiply in and eventually lyse cancerous cells. Also, while oncolytic viruses could still do that in patients at the stage of cancer Roslin is in, the effect would most likely simply be that the patient dies. The amount of cells lost and the spill-out of lysed cells' contents would probably cause a shock that would push the patient over the edge. Remember that Roslin doesn't "just" have metastatic disease, she's already on death's door. Also, oncolytic viruses can't repair the damage the body has already suffered, they can only relieve the strain induced by the cancer. So if the patient is about to die, an oncolytic virus is unlikely to change that. The body has to be still able to sustain itself. Also, I am not sure where you got the bit that ethical and social reasons would prevent such viruses to be tested on humans. Clinical trials of oncolytic viruses are ongoing in multiple places across the planet. In fact, at least China has already approved one oncolytic virus therapy. (Cf. here) --OliverH. 09:06, 7 March 2006 (CST)