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...Folkman and his colleagues were guardedly optimistic about transferring the positive results of treatments of mouse tumors--the experiment on which the Times had seized--to human cancer patients and were leery of the raised expectations such press coverage could bring...
...media's response to his work has been puzzling to Folkman, who stresses he never used the word "cure"--"only the New York Times did." He also says his positive results in trials with mice did not seem to warrant the front page of the Times, since the so-called "third generation" drugs used in his research--angiostatin and endostatin--have yet to be tested in humans...
...jump to conclusions about the drug's potential success in humans based on their observed effects on mice, says Folkman, is not right...
...Folkman says he told the New York Times reporter who wrote the article that it was imperative to use the word "mice" in the headline and to make clear that cancer remission had only been documented in rodents, which the writer...
After the Times article ran, researchers at the National Cancer Institute tried in vain to duplicate the results obtained in Folkman...