Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cancer gene therapy : historical perspective / Malcolm K. Brenner -- The genetic basis of cancer / Akseli Hemminki and Kari Hemminki -- Tumor suppressor gene replacement for cancer / Jack A. Roth and Susan F. Grammer -- Antisense technology / Ruiwen Zhang and Hui Wang -- Cancer therapeutic applications of ribozymes and RNAi / Lisa Scherer and John J. Rossi -- Fusogeneic membrane glycoproteins for cancer gene therapy : a better class of killer / Andrew Bateman ... [et al.] -- Suicide gene therapy / Caroline J. Springer and Ion Niculescu-Duvaz -- Molecular chemotherapy approaches / Daniel H. Palmer and David J. Kerr -- Genetic immunotherapy approaches / Denise R. Shaw and Albert F. LoBuglio -- Immunotherapy of cancer by dendritic cell-targeted : gene transfer / Tanja D. de Gruijl, Herbert M. Pinedo, and Rik J. Scheper -- Dendritic cells / Weiping Zou, Shuang Wei and Tyler J. Curiel --

Polynucleotide immunization for cancer therapy / Theresa V. Strong -- Development of oncolytic replication-competent herpes simplex virus vectors: the G207 paradigm / Tomoki Todo and Samuel D. Rabkin -- Development of oncolytic adenoviruses : from the lab bench to the bedside / John A. Howe, Robert Ralston, and Murali Ramachandra -- Conditionally replicating adenoviruses for cancer treatment / Ramon Alemany -- Reovirus as an oncolytic agent / Megan K. Patrick, Kara L. Norman, and Patrick W. K. Lee -- Antiangiogenic gene therapy of cancer / Steve Gyorffy ... [et al.] -- Proapoptotic strategy in cancer gene therapy / David H. Holman ... [et al.] -- Antimetastasis / Duen-Hwa Yan, Kung-Ming Rau, and Mien-Chie Hung -- Antimetastatic gene therapy : prostate cancer theory to therapy / Thomas A. Gardner ... [et al.] --

Drug-resistance gene transfer as an antitumor strategy / Colin L. Sweeney and R. Scott McIvor -- Chemosensitization / Per Eystein Lønning -- Radiosensitization by gene therapy / Steven J. Chmura, Michael Garofalo, and Ralph R. Weichselbaum -- Nonviral vector systems for cancer gene therapy / Greg F. Walker and Ernst Wagner -- Viral vectors for cancer gene therapy / Joanne T. Douglas and David T. Curiel -- Bacterial systems for tumor-specific gene therapy / J. Martin Brown ... [et al.] -- Molecular imaging of cancer gene therapy / Harvey R. Herschman -- Cancer-related gene therapy clinical trials / Robert J. Korst and Ronald G. Crystal -- Regulatory aspects in the development of gene therapies / Rosemarie Aurigemma ... [et al.].