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Cancer Immunotherapy

IL-2 Successfully Incorporated in Immuno-Gene Therapy Strategies

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 30th, 1998

Interleukin-2 (IL-2), delivered by two different vehicles, showed promise in two separate cancer models.

A major source of treatment failure of gastrointestinal cancer is the development of peritoneal metastasis. A. Tsuburaya, representing colleagues from Yokohama City University and the Kanagawa Cancer Center, Japan, presented results at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held March 28 - April 1, 1998, in New Orleans, Louisiana, demonstrating the effectiveness of IL-2 delivered by a defective herpes simplex virus (HSV) vector in the treatment of peritoneal tumors (abstract "Treatment of Peritoneal Metastasis by a Defective Herpes...

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