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Blood Vessel Development and Cancer

If you translate this story into English, you discover that we have yet another study showing that a drug to stop the development of new blood cells may offer new hope to cancer patients in the coming years.

I have to admit, of everything I ever read about cancer and various ways of attacking it, something so simple would never have even occurred to me.
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rmschoon:
These are some more articles on recent breakthroughs on treating, and killing, cancer cells, that only target the cancer, not the body in general.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13150673,00.html


This link is about "mailing" cancer drugs directly to them, instead of massive bombardment drugs that attack everything in the general area.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3871127.stm
7.7.2004 4:11pm
Geoff Brown (www):
This isn't really a new approach, but until recently, no one has been sure how to tell the body to stop giving cancerous tumors a blood supply. Tumors are essentially good cells gone bad, and they need blood for growth, too, so they just send a signal out to the body, which obligingly sends out new blood vessels. Apparently, research in this field is also promising on the anti-obesity-drug front, too.
7.7.2004 4:19pm
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