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The paper looks at how Avila, Berasain, Sangro and Pietro (2006) state that gene therapy is the transfer of nucleic acid sequences to tissues to enhance the synthesis of a therapeutic protein or to block expression of a gene. The paper explains that gene therapy includes any treatment that is based in the use of genetic material to modify cells and it uses oncolytic virotherapy which involves genetic engineering of viruses to kill cancer cells. The paper also explains that gene transfer consists of introducing a foreign gene into a cancerous cell or the surrounding tissue, using viral vectors that cannot replicate for delivery. The paper notes that while gene therapy is very promising, it also contains formidable challenges.

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"Avila, Berasain, Sangro and Pietro (2006) state that gene therapy is the transfer of nucleic acid sequences to tissues to enhance the synthesis of a therapeutic protein or to block expression of a gene. Gene therapy includes any treatment that is based in the use of genetic material to modify cells. Gene therapy uses oncolytic virotherapy which involves genetic engineering of viruses to kill cancer cells; gene transfer immunotherapy or vaccines is another form of gene therapy (Kalyn, 2007)."

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