Engineered bacteria kills targeted pathogen:

Originally posted by humy
I once read somewhere (don't remember where ) of some unusual and rare cases of a few people diagnosed with totally incurable terminal cancer inadvertently getting infected with a viral infection (don't remember which kinds of virus ) and, after getting fever and illness from the virus and then recovering, all their cancer and tumors had apparently miraculously ...[text shortened]...

If what I read there was accurate, that would definitely be something worth investigating!

cancer cells are almost always weaker then normal cells so that could happen yes.. would be good if there were a few stats...