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...Folkman, who has spent his professional career researching the growth of blood vessels, announced in the November 1997 issue of Nature that drugs tested in his lab had caused tumors in mice to regress to microscopic size...
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...
...year since that article was published, Folkman has had a rocky time as a medical celebrity...
Since the late 1960s, Folkman's research has focused on the process of angiogenesis, whereby the body constructs new blood vessels...
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...