Gene therapy holds much more promise in all diseases than this simple appication, even in the survivability of oral cancers. Please check the OC in the news section of the web site for numerous articles we have been posting for more than a year on the NIDCR sponsored work in this area. There is one just from this last week even. Gene therapy, nano particles, and stem cells will likely spell the end of cancers as we know them, let alone salivary function.