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Cancer Gene Therapy

Understanding Tumor-Suppressor Protein Function May Someday Lead to Treatment

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 25th, 1998

Scientists at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, appear to have an important clue to the workings of a gene that normally protects against cancer.

Ultimately, by understanding how both the normal and the damaged gene work, scientists may be able to find ways to interfere with the development of cancer.

Charles Brenner, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, and a member of Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center, and his colleagues at the University of Texas in San Antonio, and at the University of Sheffield in England have distinguished between potential mechanisms by which the FHIT...

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