Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS) M. Judah Folkman was prepared to try and fight cancer. He was not prepared to be touted as the next Jonas Salk...
About one year later, a front-page article in the New York Times led a media blitz that managed to blow even this important discovery out of proportion, making Folkman sound steps away from a cure for cancer in humans...
Though his work did not originally have to do with cancer, Folkman soon realized that the formation of new blood vessels was crucial to tumor growth...
...Folkman--also director of the surgical research laboratory at the Children's Hospital Medical Research Center of HMS--who first hypothesized in the 1970s that cutting off a tumor's blood supply would essentially starve a tumor, potentially saving the lives of cancer patients...
...endostatin, a compound discovered in Folkman's lab in 1997 by Michael O'Reilly, a researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has led the pack...