Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on November 27, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(23):1739-1741; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm234
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Published by Oxford University Press 2007.
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Targeting the Tumor Vasculature to Improve the Efficacy of Oncolytic Virus Therapy
Affiliation of authors: Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Correspondence to: Giovanna Tosato, Bldg 37, Rm 4124, Bethesda, MD 20892 (e-mail: tosatog@mail.nih.gov).
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Virus-mediated oncolysis is not a new concept. The idea goes back to the early 1900s, when it was noted that a flu-like disease coincided with a substantial drop in the number of tumor cells in a leukemic patient (1) and that rabies vaccination was followed by regression of cervical cancer (2). Additional anecdotal observations followed, but early attempts at viral therapy for cancer were unsuccessful (3,4). In principle, to be an effective weapon against cancer, an oncolytic virus must infect and kill cancer cells while sparing normal cells (5,6). Recent advances in biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetic engineering have brought oncolytic virus therapy back into focus. Some viruses that preferentially infect tumor cells
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