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Cancer Gene Therapy
Jilin University describes research in cancer gene therapy
April 29th, 2008
Fresh data on cancer gene therapy are presented in the report 'Increase in efficacy of cancer radiotherapy by combination with whole-body low dose irradiation.' According to recent research from Changchun, People's Republic of China, "Design of cancer radiotherapy protocol to reduce radiation dose and increase treatment efficacy in Lewis lung cancer (LLC) model. C57BL/6J mice subcutaneously implanted with LLC were treated by conventional radiotherapy (2Gy x 6) combined with LDWBI (low dose whole-body irradiation; the second, third, fifth and sixth local doses of 2Gy each substituted by LDWBI with 0.075Gy) and/or gene therapy (intratumor injection of pEgr-IL-18-B7.1 plasmid 24 h before the...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-04-29)
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