Cancer Gene Therapy

Data on cancer gene therapy reported by researchers at Spanish National Cancer Center

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 10th, 2007

Data detailed in "Epigenetics provides a new generation of oncogenes and tumour-suppressor genes" have been presented. "Cancer is nowadays recognised as a genetic and epigenetic disease. Much effort has been devoted in the last 30 years to the elucidation of the 'classical' oncogenes and tumour-suppressor genes involved in malignant cell transformation," researchers in Madrid, Spain report.

"However, since the acceptance that major disruption of DNA methylation, histone modification and chromatin compartments are a common hallmark of human cancer, epigenetics has come to the fore in cancer research. One piece is still missing from the story: are the epigenetic genes...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-04-10)

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