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...tumor to grow beyond the size of a pencil eraser, it recruits its own blood supply, and it does that day after day," Folkman says...
...have an in situtumor all your life and never know about it. In situcancer is not usually harmful because it does not metastasize," Folkman says...
...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...
Three years after his initial discovery, in 1975, Folkman and colleague Henry Brem discovered the first angiogenesis inhibitor molecule in cartilage. Researchers, including Folkman, had to learn to culture blood vessels and try to test angiogenesis inhibiting compounds...
...From Folkman's original work, study of angiogenesis and its medical uses has spread to labs across the globe...