Korean Professor Closes in on Cancer Cure
Published: September 21, 2004
A novel method of medical treatment that could mark an epochal increase in the efficacy of the gene therapy targeting cancer has been developed.
Jointly with Vanderbilt University professor David Carbone, Lee Chun-tack, a professor of the internal medicine department of the Seoul National University’s Bundang Hospital, has developed a new method that is to efficiently deliver a gene having a curative value to tumor cells, and reported this result in the new issue of the monthly Cancer Research, announced Lee on September 16.
The professors injected two different types of Adenoviruses into tumors found in mice, first of which retains the tumor destroying genes and the other manipulated to be “Cancer dissoluble,” which only propagate within the tumor cells, without carrying the remedial genes. As a result, Lee’s research team has reported that the genes reach most of the tumor cells and showed 30 to 100 times better efficacy of cancer treatment than those of previously existing cancer remedies.
“If the result of animal experiments proves to be positive when it comes to humans, an epoch-making turning point in cancer treatment will be established,” said Lee.
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