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...pioneering research of Dr. M. Judah Folkman, Dyckman Professor of Pediatric Surgery at Children's Hospital and Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), a possible cancer treatment may soon be available...
...Folkman's group began to consider using angiostatin as a treatment to maintain dormancy of the tumors two years...
Since then, Folkman's group has demonstrated that these natural inhibitors can be injected into tumors, causing them to shrink. This creates the possibility of using the inhibitors as a first-line therapy against cancer. These results are unpublished...
According to Folkman, over 60 pharmaceutical companies are focusing on angiogenesis for cancer therapeutics, and large-scale clinical trials of some of the first inhibitors are likely to occur in the near future...
...drugs may have side effects, however, such as reducing the rate at which wounds heal and preventing fetus development. However, Folkman said the side effects are minimal when contrasted to those caused by chemotherapy: hair and weight loss, nausea and diarrhea...