Gastric adenocarcinoma producing alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) has a very poor prognosis. In search of new therapeutic strategies against AFP-producing gastric cancer, we examined the efficacy of suicide gene therapy, which has been effective on AFP-producing hepatoma.
Departments of Pathology/Pathophysiology, Gastroenterology and Hematology, Division of Pathophysiological Science, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.