Cancer Gene Therapy (Adenovirus)
Virus Targets Brain Cancer Cells
Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 20th, 1997
The findings could help lead to gene therapy for brain tumors, especially glioma, a frequent and highly malignant cancer.
Writing in the journal Nature Medicine, Howard Fine and colleagues at Harvard Medical School's Dana Farber Cancer Institute said rats who had brain tumors induced, and then were injected with an adapted adenovirus, lived longer than rats who did not get the virus.
They were working on the bases of studies that showed giving patients an injection of adenovirus followed by taking the antiviral drug...
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