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...Judah Folkman, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, told a seminar of the American Cancer Society that the protein--tumor; angiogenesis factor (TAF)--is required by solid tumors to develop capillaries necessary for growth...
...Folkman told members of the seminar in Clearwater, Fla, that without the TAF, the tumor becomes trapped in its waste products and is not supplied with the nutrients necessary for growth beyond the size of a pinhead...
...Folkman said that his research team is searching for ways to inhibit the action or prevent the production of TAF. He added that about a half-dozen other laboratories are about to join the search...
...Harvard team is working on the production of an antibody against TAF which might also cause already large tumors--for which surgery is not feasible--to regress. Folkman said...
...This is almost like a new drug, so we want to carry out extensive experiments before we allow it to be used commercially," Folkman said...