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[Conditionally replicative adenoviruses: a second wind for cancer gene therapy].
Bulletin du cancer - 1 Dec 2003
Grill Jacques, Geoerger Birgit, Lamfers Martine, Dirven Clemens, Van Beusechem Victor, Gerritsen Winald, Vassal Gilles
Abstract excerpt
Cancer gene therapy has offered many hopes but its first use in humans revealed some pitfalls and at least three main problems: lack of efficacy and specificity of current vectors to deliver therapeutic genes, poor diffusion of the therapeutic effects inside the tumor (absence of bystander effect), poor distribution of the vectors injected inside the tissue. To address some of these issues, several teams have...
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