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GENE THERAPY:
What to Do When Clear Success Comes With an Unclear Risk?

Eliot Marshall

An expert panel, meeting in an emergency session last week, urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to lift a hold it had placed on three gene therapy trials after a patient treated with gene therapy in France developed cancer. The panel made the recommendation after concluding that the cancer was almost certainly caused by the gene therapy.

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