Examples of use of P53
1. When p53 itself becomes disabled by mutations, though, cells can more easily turn cancerous.
2. One is to use gene therapy to insert normal copies of the p53 gene into cancer cells.
3. The company‘s studies, most of them published only in Chinese medical literature, showed significant benefits, if not cures, from the p53 treatment.
4. "We think that the high risk of breast cancer may be related to an unusually high level of certain hormones during pregnancy – which is also due to inheriting an abnormal copy of the p53 gene.
5. The mutation of a gene known as p53 – which all of us have and which normally suppresses cancer – could mean that mothers and their children are more susceptible to the disease.