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New Chemoprevention Gene Therapy (CGT) Combo Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Posted on August 05, 2008

A research team from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine have showed that combining a dietary agent with a gene-delivered cytokine effectively eliminates human pancreatic cancer cells in mice displaying sensitivity to these highly aggressive and lethal cancer cells.The cytokine used in this study was melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24, known as mda-7/IL-24.The dietary agent, perillyl alcohol (POH), was combined with mda-7/IL-24, which is already used in other cancer treatments. POH is found in a variety of pl...

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cancer , pancreatic cancer