The future of gene therapy in the treatment of urologic malignancies.

Gene therapy as a field of academic inquiry and as a medical technology is perhaps the inevitable consequence of living in today's technologic age. At its essence, gene therapy is merely therapy using molecular information. The identification of the pivotal role of DNA in the information systems of life and the subsequent emergence of molecular biology and its technologies has led to routine use of the genetic code-like software to treat human disease in clinical trials.