Gene Therapy as a Cancer Treatment

Paper Summary:

This paper examines methods of treating cancer using gene therapy techniques. The writer describes cancer and the methods of cancer treatment most commonly used, and explains that gene therapy is so new, and evidence of its effectiveness so scarce, that it is not a common treatment. However, researchers are enthusiastic about its possibilities. The writer discusses the P53 gene, which has been identified as an important tumor suppressor gene on which to focus gene therapy, and the current challenge presented by the necessity of delivering genes to an exact location in the patient's DNA. The ethical issues arising from the use of gene therapy are also discussed.

Outline:
Introduction
Background
Cancer and gene therapy
Recommendations
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"There are also bioethical issues that are associated with gene therapy, which this current investigation must also consider. In terms of science and medical technology, there are good sides and bad sides to progress, and the overall theme in most of the exhaustively recovered secondary texts examined by the current report, if there is one, is that science can only really be good for society when it is practiced responsibly and with a foundation of bioethics. People still try to guess about the future of science, technology and society and how they will interact, just as authors have guessed about this fascinating subject for many years in the past. But realistically, the cure for cancer may not yet be found."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hunt, L (1995). Lung cancer gene therapy given trial run. Independent, The (London). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960210/ai_n14030423/?tag=content;col1
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• Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge (2007). UNESCO. http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/eng/declaration_e.htm
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• Gene Therapy (2009) http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/Gene

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