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...combination of angiostatin and endostatin appears to eliminate tumors in mice," beyond detectable levels, Folkman said...
More than 200 people packed the Fairchild Biochemistry Lecture Hall Friday afternoon to hear Children's Hospital researcher M. Judah Folkman speak about his research which identifies human proteins that may be used as drugs to shrink cancer tumors...
...Folkman's research centers around using proteins to block the growth of the blood vessels which feed cancerous tumors. Injections of two such proteins--angiostatin and endostatin--into mice with cancerous tumors eventually hampered the growth of the tumors. The proteins caused the tumors to shrink, and eventually, to stop growing back...
...Folkman hypothesized that large, primary tumors secrete an inhibitory substance to prevent blood vessel formation and the growth of the many smaller, secondary tumors that coexist in diseased individuals...
...Like Folkman, O'Reilly has a surgery background and does clinical work in addition to his research...