‘Seek-And-Destroy’ Therapy May Help Treat Prostate Cancer: Study
The Quint"Although some treatments, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, can be effective against localised tumours, there is still no effective treatment for patients whose cancer recurs or spreads," said Christine Dufes, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. "Gene therapy could be highly promising for the treatment of prostate cancer, but its use is currently limited by the lack of delivery systems which can selectively deliver the therapeutic genes to the tumours without adverse side effects for healthy tissues," said Dufes. The results show that it is highly promising for the treatment of prostate cancer by gene therapy," she said. "We are delighted to see that this research is making the advances that could one day see gene therapy used to treat prostate cancer patients in the clinic," said Matthew Lam, Science Communications Manager at Worldwide Cancer Research, which funded the research.
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