Finally: The cancer-destroying virus

Although the jab has been tested on prostate tumours, they believe it could work on a range of other deadly cancers including breast, lung and pancreatic cancer.

Unlike a conventional vaccine which is given to prevent infection with a virus or bacteria, the new treatment is used after someone has contracted cancer.

Prof  Alan Melcher, from the University of Leeds, who co-led the research, said clinical trials could be underway within ‘a few years’ and that the same technique could work for a host of cancers.