A recent research therapy in Texas says it could combat prostate cancer.
The suicide gene therapy was advanced at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas which conducted experiment to prove the therapy's effectiveness to battle prostate cancer, Regal Tribune reported.
The research study was published in Radiation Oncology, explaining the effectiveness of suicide gene therapy.
The research conducted in Houston Methodist Hospital involved 66 persons with prostate cancer. In conducting the experiment, those with milder type only underwent radiotherapy and did not include hormone therapy. On the other hand, those with advanced type underwent radiotherapy with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).
There is also a suicide gene therapy that was done to the subjects, which was a newly invented therapy wherein genes can be used to battle a disease. Subjects underwent a different therapy including the newly invented suicide gene where procedures can be seen in the journal.
Suicide gene therapy has become a breakthrough to medical field. In forcing tumor cells to self-destruct, this newly developed treatment concluded that could increase life expectancy for the patients of prostate cancer by as much as 20 percent.
Research conducting the therapy confused the cancer cells by the use of mix viruses. This then will give a herpes genes directly to the cell. With chemotherapy, Valacyclovir combats herpes gene and the cancer cells. This will start destroying itself, Recorder Press reported.
Watch the video by UK News about the suicide gene therapy that kills prostate cancer cells.