In the past few years, we’ve seen the introduction of a cervical cancer vaccine and a prostate cancer vaccine — but what if a vaccine could actually cure cancer, instead of just preventing it? According a new, promising study by the Mayo Clinic, that possibility might be more real than you might think. The famous medical research center announced Wednesday that one of its patients is in remission without a trace of cancer left in her body — all after receiving a single, massive dose of the measles vaccine. The patient, a 50-year-old woman named Stacy Erholtz, had an aggressive form of blood cancer that spread throughout her entire body over the course of 10 years.

Out of conventional treatment options, she decided to participate in the Mayo Clinic’s experimental study. The researchers injected Erholtz with a hefty dose of the measles vaccine — enough to inoculate 10 million people. After a single dose, she was in complete remission. “It’s a landmark,” said Stephen Russell, who spearheaded the Mayo research. “We’ve known for a long time that we can give a virus intravenously and destroy metastatic cancer in mice. Nobody’s shown that you can do that in people before.”

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