title: [Progress of biotherapy in gastrointestinal carcinomas].
abstract: Gastrointestinal carcinomas are among the malignancies with highest morbidity and mortality. The survival rates of these tumors remain pretty low in spite of advancements of traditional treatments. As the fourth treatment method besides surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, biotherapy has shown promising prospect in improving the prognosis of gastrointestinal carcinomas. In this manuscript, we summarized the current progress of biotherapy in gastrointestinal tumors including gene therapy, immune therapy and molecular targeted therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotherapy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. xiajianchuan1988@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jian-chuan
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: De-sheng
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Weng
mesh_terms: D001691:Biological Therapy; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy