Word: avastin
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...tests, Avastin increased the rate of tumor shrinkage and delayed relapses for longer, without the side effects of other cancer treatments, said William W. Li ’84, president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, a non-profit organization...
...Avastin must now wait for approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which researchers expect will occur by the end of this year. The drug is not expected to be a cure for cancer—doctors hope instead that it could serve as a helpful accompaniment to traditional chemotherapy programs...
Folkman theorized that tumors multiply by growing their own blood vessels, an idea originally shunned by many medical professionals. Tests of Avastin, however, demonstrated that the growth of tumors could be slowed by decreasing their blood supply...
...Avastin announcement is the first major triumph in this field,” Li said. “This marks a turning point in the war against cancer because it proves for the first time that Dr. Folkman’s theory is correct...
With the recent success of Avastin “all this laboratory work, for the first time in the last few years, is being translated from the lab to the bedside,” Folkman said...