Talk:Anticancer gene

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because <It is based on research conducted at a number of universities all over the world and a Google search so far brings up only one web site that explains this term in a way that can be understood by the general public. More details on Anticancer genes will be added over time.>. — Rüpel1963 (talk) 16:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Molecular Genetics

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Wiki Education assignment: Molecular Genetics

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Not tumour suppressor genes?

Some of these genes seem to exist only in viruses so are not human tumour suppressor genes. I think the point of this article is to discuss how such genes could be used in cancer therapeutics. But the opening paragraph seems to be describing tumour suppressor genes. This leads to the article seeming confusing.

I suggest re-writing the opening to make it clear that these are genes that could potentially be used in therapeutics but (so far as I can tell) none have so far been used successfully at a large scale. I would also suggest removing the p53 and BRCA section unless there are proposals to use introduce these therapeutically, in which case that should be stated. And I suggest removing the "Common misconceptions" section, which seems to be about genes and proteins in general, not these genes or proteins and no in the context of cancer.

What does anyone else think? Mgp28 (talk) 14:07, 28 January 2024 (UTC)