Cancer Gene Therapy

Research Impacts Directly on the Genetics of the Cell

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 3rd, 1995

In a reported gene therapy first, scientists are now attempting to replace the defective genes at the root of cancer in lung cancer patients.

Research results were reported on at the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation conference, held June 20-21, 1995, in Bethesda, Maryland.

"This is really the first attempt at undoing the genetic changes at the heart of the cancer process," said Dr. Jack A. Roth, chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Other gene therapies now being studied use genes to rouse the patient's immune system to attack the tumor, but don't...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1995-07-03)

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