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The future of Cancer therapy could exist today! But why are do we still rely on decades old medical technologies? I cannot say.

Check out this gene therapy called Gendicine approved in China to reverse cancer.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Gendicine+p53

Apparently, the treatment has been available for years, and yet the product has failed to penetrate to the U.S. It would be funny if it were not true.

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Perhaps because there haven't been any wide scale clinical trials that prove it's effectiveness? Of the papers I read through at the given link, most seem to come to conclusion that Gendicide p53 is safe to give to humans and don't comment on whether or not it's an effective therapy, or if it's more effective than existing treatments.

This was invented by onyx pharma in the US years ago. The clinical trials didn't work. Onyx moved onto the greener pasture of small molecule drugs. It seems the viral p53 delivery may work out better with liver cancers, which is a bigger problem in China.

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