Dr. Raajii Ahamed

GENE THERAPY FOR CANCER TREATMENT SUMMARY Gene transfer is a new treatment modality that introduces new genes into a cancerous cell or the  surrounding tissue to cause cell death or slow the growth of the cancer. Cancer gene therapy  represents one of the most rapidly developing problems in pre-clinical and clinical cancer research.  Now a day, viral, non-viral and bacterial vector methods of gene transfer are used either in vivo or  ex vivo/invitro. However, the new technologies of gene therapy (such as pro-drug activating  suicide gene therapy, anti- angiogenic gene therapy, oncolytic viro therapy, gene therapy-based  immune modulation, correction/compensation of gene defects, and genetic manipulation of  apoptotic and tumor invasion pathways) were implemented in most civilized countries, the disease  is still devastating the developing countries like Ethiopia and it was aimed to review types,  approaches and techniques of gene therapy...