Oncology

Research add new data to oncology body of knowledge

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, April 25th, 2005

New findings from the People's Republic of China, Japan and South Korea describe advances in oncology.

Study 1: Orally administered bacteria transport anticancer genes in mice.

"To overcome difficulties that hampered widespread application of a specific delivery system in cancer gene therapy and to inhibit the growth of solid liver cancer, we utilized a strain of Bifidobacterium longum as a delivery system to transport an endostatin gene that can inhibit growth of tumor," investigators in the Peoples Republic of China report.

"The B. longum strain with the endostatin gene (B.longum-En) was taken orally by...

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