Cure for Cancer

GENE THERAPY: TWO PROPOSALS Two proposals have been presented concerning the issue of gene therapy. The first was a proposal to treat cancer. With the p53 gene being recognized as a tumor suppressor, by manually inserting the p53 gene into different parts of the body, it can potentially “cure” lung cancer by prevention. I would agree with this gene therapy basically because if this gene therapy worked, the consequences and potential for the greater good …

…of a dramatic effect on the community. With a new market for the economy, my proposal would help take the stress off of the people’s taxes and the government could tax these tobacco corporations often and more liberally. This money could be used for other research for medicine. By having germatic gene therapy, I feel that the consequences created fiddle with the already sensitive subjects of biological and medicinal advancements for the human body.