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...front-page Sunday New York Times story on Dr.Judah Folkman's research into a technique for killing cancer tumors has sparked widespread dramatic coverage in the media, but TIME medical writer Christine Gorman is paying attention to a different angle: Always ask, she says, who benefits from early media reports of a cancer-treatment breakthrough...
...Folkman can only say that the two strongestangiogenesis inhibitors have yet to start clinicaltrials. He refers patients to doctors currentlyconducting FDA-approved clinical trials. He notesthat besides angiogenesis inhibitors, many otherpotential treatments are currently in development.But the calls continue while Folkman pursues hisresearch...
Though countless medical organizations havehonored his research, Folkman remains humble abouthis achievements. He gives credit to hiscolleagues and maintains the reserved demeanor ofa man who has devoted years of persistent researchin pursuit of a single idea...
...Folkman remains cautiously optimistic about thefuture because he knows that much remains to bedone...
...There are 500,000 patients dying each yearfrom advanced cancer and 1.3 million new cancerpatients each year," Folkman says.Courtesy of The New England Journal ofMedicineCANCER AND THE ANGIOGENIC LINK: An insitu carcinoma grows to form a tumor. There aretwo types of cells: angiogenic tumor cells andnon-angiogenic cells. The cancer spreads to otherparts of the body (metastasis). Either angiogenictumor cells or non-angiogenic cells exist. Theangiogenic tumor cells can rapidly grow and bedetected in the clinic...