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New Drug Delivery Technology Complements Gene Therapy

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 26th, 1997

Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has demonstrated in animal models that its proprietary drug delivery technology has the potential to carry therapeutic genes to disease sites throughout the body after intravenous administration, the company reported.

Dr. John Warner, Inex's vice president of gene therapy and immunology, told a gene therapy conference that this capability is necessary to fight diseases such as metastatic cancers, which spread throughout the body. Dr. Warner made his comments to the International Business Communications Conference on Gene Therapy in Bethesda, Maryland.

"Large tumor masses are often...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-05-26)

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