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Opportunities and challenges in combination gene cancer therapy

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Nastiuk, Kent L., Krolewski, John J.·2016·Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

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Treatment for solid tumor malignancies, which constitute the majority of human cancers, is still dominated by surgery and radiotherapies. This is especially true for many localized solid tumors, which are often curable with these treatments. However, metastatic cancers are beyond the reach of these therapies, and many localized cancers that are initially treated with surgery and radiation will recur and metastasize. Thus, for over 60years there has been a concerted effort to develop effective drug treatments for metastatic cancers. Combination therapies are an increasingly important part of the anti-cancer drug armamentarium. In the case of cytotoxic chemotherapy, multi-drug regimens rapidly became the norm, as the earliest single agents were relatively ineffective. In contrast to chemotherapy, where combination therapies were required in order to achieve treatment efficacy, for both hormonal and targeted therapies the impetus to move toward the use of combination therapies is to prevent or reverse the development of treatment resistance. In addition, emerging evidence suggests that combination therapy may also improve cancer treatment by neutralizing an emerging treatment side effect termed therapy-induced metastasis, which accompanies some effective single agent therapies. Finally, although gene therapy is still far from use in the clinic, we propose that combination therapies may enhance its effectiveness.

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Authors
Nastiuk, K. L., & Krolewski, J. J.
Affiliations
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
Corresponding author
Krolewski, John J.
Venue
Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-03
Volume
98
Pages
35-40
ISSN
0169-409X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2210056821
Cited by
85
References
99
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 3
FWCI
0.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (R01CA151753)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biotechnology › Cancer Research and Treatments
Keywords
combination gene therapy, cancer gene therapy, metastatic cancer, treatment resistance, solid tumors, multidrug chemotherapy, targeted therapy, hormone therapy, drug delivery
MeSH terms
Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Combined Modality Therapy, Humans, Neoplasms, Genetic Therapy, Apoptosis

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