Cancer Gene Therapy
Radiotherapy Enhanced by Hyperthermia-Regulated Treatment
Published in Cancer Weekly, January 30th, 2001
"Interleukin-12 (IL-12) has shown strong antitumoral effects in numerous pre-clinical studies and appears to act synergistically with radiation in murine tumors," wrote F. Lohr and colleagues from the University Heidelberg, Germany. "The major impediment to its clinical use has been its systemic toxicity. While using intratumorally injected viral gene therapy vectors encoding IL-12 reduces systemic side effects substantially, elevated systemic transgene levels are still observed because adenovirus can reach the...
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