Current status of tumor radiogenic therapy.
Although tumor gene therapy falls behind its clinical use, the combination of irradiation and gene therapy is full of promise in cancer therapy based on traditional radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery. We have termed it as radiogenic therapy. This review focuses on the following aspects of radiogenic therapy in recent years: improvement of gene transfer efficiency by irradiation, radiotherapy combined with cytokine gene delivery or enhancement of the immunity of tumor cells by transgene, direct stimulation by radiation to produce cytotoxic agents, increase of tumor cell radiosensitivity in gene therapy by controlling the radiosensitivity genes and adjusting the fraction dose and interval of radiation so as to achieve the optimum antitumor effect while reducing the normal tissue damage, radioprotective gene therapy enhancing radiation tumor killing effect while protecting the normal tissue and organs with transgene using transfer vectors.
Min
Feng-Ling
FL
Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, China. fuchenbb@sohu.com
Zhang
Hong
H
Li
Wen-Jian
WJ
D015316:Genetic Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000628:therapy*; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant