title: Advanced new strategies for metastatic cancer treatment by therapeutic stem cells and oncolytic virotherapy.
abstract: The field of therapeutic stem cell and oncolytic virotherapy for cancer treatment has rapidly expanded over the past decade. Oncolytic viruses constitute a promising new class of anticancer agent because of their ability to selectively infect and destroy tumor cells. Engineering of viruses to express anticancer genes and specific cancer targeting molecules has led to the use of these systems as a novel platform of metastatic cancer therapy. In addition, stem cells have a cancer specific migratory capacity, which is available for metastatic cancer targeting. Prodrug activating enzyme or anticancer cytokine expressing stem cells successfully inhibited the proliferation of cancer cells. Preclinical models have clearly demonstrated anticancer activity of these two platforms against a number of different cancer types and metastatic cancer. Several systems using therapeutic stem cells or oncolytic virus have entered clinical trials, and promising results have led to late stage clinical development. Consequently, metastatic cancer therapies using stem cells and oncolytic viruses are extremely promising. The following review will focus on the metastatic cancer targeting mechanism of therapeutic stem cells and oncolytic viruses, and potential challenges ahead for advancing the field.
authors: Laboratory of Biochemistry and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea.
authors: Geon-Tae
authors: GT
authors: Park
authors: Laboratory of Biochemistry and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea.|TheraCell Bio & Science, Cheongju, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea.
authors: Kyung-Chul
authors: KC
authors: Choi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000628:therapy; D050130:Oncolytic Virotherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D011355:Prodrugs; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods; D014780:Viruses
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D011355:Prodrugs
keywords: cancer treatment; metastatic cancer; oncolytic virotherapy; therapeutic stem cell