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Pituitary Cancer
New pituitary cancer study results reported from National University
June 10th, 2008
According to recent research from La Plata, Argentina, "The implementation of gene therapy for the treatment of pituitary tumors emerges as a promising complement to surgery and may have distinct advantages over radiotherapy for this type of tumors. Up to now, suicide gene therapy has been the main experimental approach explored to treat experimental pituitary tumors." "In the present study we assessed the effectiveness of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) gene therapy for the treatment of estrogen-induced prolactinomas in rats. Female Sprague Dawley rats were subcutaneously implanted with silastic capsules filled with 17-beta estradiol (E-2) in order to induce...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-06-10)
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