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...another venture to examine the development of tumors, Dr. M. Judah Folkman, Andrus professor of surgery at Children's Hospital and the Medical School, is concentrating on the formation of blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis...
According to Judah Folkman, professor of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital and a leading breast cancer researcher, the discovery is "fundamental because it may be a general phenomenon...
...provides a much earlier window to detect and treat breast cancer," Folkman said. "They're going back even earlier than when there's a lump...
...Judah Folkman, Andrus professor of pediatric surgery and a professor of anatomy and cellular biology at the Medical School, a team of doctors discovered that basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is present in the normal lining of the intestines and in ulcerated tissue. The team also found evidence that the growth factor may be critical in duodenal ulcer repair...
...Folkman likens the recent clinical success in combatting cancer to the nearly hopeless battle against pneumonia in the early years of this century, when the sometimes successful sulfa drug and later penicillin were introduced. Scientists then had little theoretical knowledge of pneumonia, but were nonetheless happy to have some kind of treatment, however flawed...