Cancer Gene Therapies

Experts Say Gene Therapy a Distant Hope in Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 27th, 1999

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on cracking the human genetic code, and as much again by biotechnologists attempting to devise dramatic new ways of treating cancer.

But the message from the European Cancer Conference is "don't hold your breath." A treatment revolution driven by the ability to break into the computer program that directs our individual cells and alter it to cure or avert disease is still a long way off.

"Gene therapy is a very young but very noisy baby which has been very promising but already controversial," said Prof. Thomas Tursz, director of the Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. "Making the summary of...

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