Asbestos Mesothelioma - Gendicine, Could it Be the Next Promising Cure For Cancer?

Europe and the United States are probably still a year away from the licensing of gene therapy, however, currently there are at least two clinical trials testing gene therapy for mesothelioma. They include the University of Pennsylvania and Louisiana State University. Unfortunately, gene therapy research is a major blow in 1999 when teenager Jesse Gelsinger died during a gene therapy clinical trial at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nevertheless, China is now the only country in the world which is already approved gene therapy. 16th October 2003, a drug called Gendicine was approved by the State Food and Drug Administration of China. Gendicine had more than 5 years of clinical testing before being approved. They currently have the benefit of this therapy to more than 4500 patients and followed their patient's progress for more than six years. Now, hundreds of cancer patients from around the world travel to Beijing to receive this leading edge treatment.

clinical trial included 135 patients Gendicine and the results showed that 64% of patients showed tumor after 8 weekly injections in combination with radiation. According to the results of clinical trials, using Gendicine with chemotherapy and radiation therapy can improve the efficiency of 3 puta.Samo Gendicine is a typical side effects over night fever.

Since there are no other approved gene therapy treatment in the world, many desperate cancer patients from North America and Europe traveling in Beijing, China to receive treatment Gendicine.

Richard Weissenborn from Texas, USA, is the language of cancer that has spread to their lymph nodes and received two months of living in July 2006. He was treated with chemotherapy and Gendicine Dr. Li Dinggang the Haidan Hospital in Beijing, at a cost of about $ 30,000 U.S.

After two cycles of treatment, more than two months, PET scan showed that the cancer besplatan.Kontroverze about this story is that, although Richard cancer is gone, there are some doubts about whether chemotherapy or Gendicine cure it. Dr. Mark Persky, cancer specialist noted that "According to my view, there is really no way to tell whether one or the other because of a tumor ".

In healthy cells, there is a gene p53 gene, which can be repaired DNA, cell growth arrest and initiate a cellular self-destruction if cell damage is too great as in the case of cancer. However, in a study of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in Beijing revealed that the high occurrence of p53 gene damage in asbestos-related cancers such as mesothelioma.

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