Cancer is caused by changes in our genes. In recent years, researchers have learned a great deal about the gene changes that can lead to cancer. Gene therapy may be a way to overcome these changes in order to treat (or even prevent) cancer. While it holds great hope for the future, at this time gene therapy is limited by our technical abilities. It will likely be years before gene therapy is available to cancer patients other than in research studies.

Revised: 05/24/2007