Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...most recent work has shown that successive injections of the inhibitors in mice cause the tumors to shrink at the same rate, but they take longer to grow back each time. After several successive rounds, the tumors do not grow back...
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 These results are unpublished...
...FIBROIDS in retreat? A preliminary trial finds that the benign tumors shrink markedly when doctors inject uterine arteries with a solution containing tiny plastic particles. The injections cut off the blood supply to the fibroids--apparently without harming the uterus...