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In 2007, 1,444,920 Americans were diagnosed with cancer, 559,650 died of cancer, $206.3 billion spent on healthcare costs for cancer in 2006, and 47 million Americans lack health insurance. Cancer rates increase with age, and roughly 25 percent of all people in the United States develop cancer at some point in their lives. It has been estimated that 70 – 80 percent of cancer cases result from chemical exposure, environmental factors, or some combination of the two, and 40 percent of those cancers are caused by cigarette smoke. Each year in the United States, more than 500,000 individuals die of cancer, making it second only to heart disease as a cause of death (American Cancer Society, Huether & McCance). Therefore, the ever evolving treatments for cancer, will there be a way to kill cancer? Everyday someone is thinking of new ways to cure, treat or even having the cancer placed into remission. Therefore, Onxy-015 is a genetically engineered, or modified, adenovirus, a virus that causes a common cold. This virus has been altered in such a way that it will infect cancer cells, eventually killing them, but will not infect normal healthy cells (Doe).