Welcome to Cancer-genetherapy.com!

These pages offer you information about the possibilities, mechanisms and future of (cancer) gene therapy.

The basic concept of gene therapy, the possibility to transduce the patients cells with genetic material and thus treat the underlying genetic reason behind the patients illness, provide new revolutionary options to treat genetic and previously uncurable diseases.

These pages provide you with latest information about the research and clinical use.

What is gene therapy?

The goal of gene therapy is to transfer the treatment gene to the cells to cure or treat a disease.

The treatment gene can modify cellular functions, guide the production of a lacking enzyme activity, modify immunesystem or destroy malignant cells.

What is the stage for gene therapy at the moment?

As the first gene therapy products are allready on markets in Asia, EU is moving to consider the first applicants to cancer genetherapy and chronic disease with viral vectors.