Word: tumor
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...team of researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital recently developed a therapy to suppress brain tumor growth by using a cancer-killing gene delivered via a virus vector to cells surrounding the tumor. Testing their treatment on mice, they said, yielded “spectacular” results...
Maguire then injected human tumor cells into the brains of the mice...
After four days, the size of the tumor in mice with the beta-interferon gene had been substantially reduced compared to the mice that had not received the gene...
...advantages of creating this “zone of resistance” around the tumor is that doing so provides a continuous source of normal cells that produce a therapeutic product that prevents tumor cells from forming, Esteves said...
Many other therapies directly attack dividing tumor cells, but when the cells then die the therapeutic source is lost...