What is Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Hematology Service doing to study and treat retinoblastoma?
• A novel approach to treating retinoblastoma was developed at Texas Children’s Cancer Center. The ultimate goal of this treatment is to cure the disease, but also save vision. This treatment involves injecting viral particles carrying an enzyme into the tumor. The tumor cells take up these viral particles. When these tumor cells are then exposed to an antiviral drug, the tumor cells are destroyed. The first such clinical trial was performed at Texas Children’s.
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