TY  - EJOU
AU  - WANG, YONGLU 
AU  - YOU, WEI 
AU  - LI, XUEMING 

TI  - Current status of gene therapy in melanoma treatment
T2  - BIOCELL

PY  - 2020
VL  - 44
IS  - 2
SN  - 1667-5746

AB  - Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer and which has a high ability of metastasis. Surgery is an effective
method to treat I or II stage melanoma patients. However, there are few treatment options for metastatic melanoma. Gene
therapy is one of the attractive options and is considered as the future direction for treating melanoma. This review
mainly discusses the properties and challenges of the various gene therapies in melanoma, especially the delivery
systems and gene targeting.
KW  - Gene therapy
KW  -  Melanoma
KW  -  Viral delivery system
KW  -  Nanoparticles

DO  - 10.32604/biocell.2020.09023