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GDEPT, a form of suicide gene therapy, aims to maximize the effect of a toxic drug and minimize its systemic effects by generating the drug in situ within the tumor. In the first step in this procedure, the gene for an exogenous enzyme is delivered and expressed in the tumor cells. Subsequently, a prodrug is administered that is converted to the active drug by the foreign enzyme expressed inside or on the surface of tumor cells.
