2. What Is Bacterial Gene
Therapy?
Bacterial Gene Therapy is when you inject/add bacteria cells to the
body to help certain treatments such as cancer and ecoli.
BGT is used at hospitals that help speed the process of Cancer
victims.
Helps replace Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for Cancer
patients.
Kills Cancer cells by entering these low
oxygen areas to get rid of the cancerous
cells.
3. Ways BGT Has Helped in the World
BGT has helped mostly by being a safe and economical way
for replacing Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for cancer
sufferers.
It has sped up the process of Cancer treatment in sufferer
by attacking the cancerous cells and making the tumor
smaller and smaller without making patients lose their hair or
any other side effects that result of Chemo or Radiotherapy.
Although some treatments can help get rid of the Cancer
cells alone but some can also just help the treatment of
Chemo and speeds up the process.
4. Treatment Options
Bactofection
This is the treatment option in which you have the bacterial directly
transferred to your genes which is called Bactofection. This process sends
the genes from transformed bacterial strands to plasmids in the cells. The
bacteria that is used in this process should not pathogenic. This so it can
send the information easier to the eukaryotic cells.
Usual looking process of Bactofection
5. Cancer Treatment Work
Cancer Treatment has taken a big impact by the use of Bacterial
Gene Therapy. All these impacts being in a good way, of course.
Cancer, from using this way of treatment, has helped in numerous
ways to Cancer treatment facilities. Some of those that have helped
are helping speed up the process of the treatment of the tumor or
helping in the use of Chemo and Radiotherapy.
In this way of treating Cancer cells it does this: The infected gene
producing the enzyme needed to break down the Cancer cells is
injected into the bacterial vector and it slowly breaks down the
cancer cells by way of releasing the enzymes (basically, killing the
cells from the inside out).
Article on Cancer treatment through BGT
6. Developments of Bacterial Gene
Therapy
More and more developments and uses for this kind of
treatment are being used every day. Here are a few names
of treatments in which BGT helps in the process in killing
things such as cancer cells:
7. Future of Bacterial Gene
Therapy
The future of BGT is finding other ways to completely
replace things such as Chemotherapy, which is effective but
has some serious side effects. One process that is “under-
construction” in the science field which is called Gene-
Directed Enzymes Prodrug Therapy. This is the closest two-
step alternative to Chemo. Although this is the most used
alternative to Chemo, more and more Enzyme/Prodrug
alternatives in the BGT field are being made everyday to
help replace and make better and faster alternatives to help
cancer sufferers.
