Sentries and saboteurs: mutating patients' genomes to suit their medicine

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Gene therapy may help physicians treat cancer patients with chemotherapy. Physicians hope to help patients tolerate more chemotherapy by genetically altering their bone marrow cells or by performing molecular surgery, which allows medications that are usually harmless to kill tumor cells.

Innovations, Gene therapy, Chemotherapy

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What are obstacles to ideal care?

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The ignorance of medical personnel and the refusal of managed care plans to reimburse patients for unproven treatments can affect the quality of care that cancer patients receive. One optional type of treatment is participation in a clinical trial.

Cancer patients

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A cold for cancer: infection with a mutant virus makes some sick patients better

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Medical experts, in an attempt to prevent the growth of tumor cells, have injected mutant adenoviruses to head and neck cancer patients. These viruses, which are known to cause colds, destroy cells and are believed to do so with cancer cells.

Health aspects, Research, Adenoviruses, Oncology

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