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...seen a mouse tumor that we cannotregress," Folkman said in a speech before theNational Institutes of Health last year...
...When we put tumors in, they all stoppedgrowing at a millimeter or less," Folkman says."You could see it. The difference was in thethyroid gland with hemoglobin solutions, theendothelial cells along the blood vessels swelledup and prevented blood vessels from reaching thetumor. But when we moved the tumor to the animal,it grew and killed the animal. In 1961, we saw forthe first time that when you have no bloodvessels, tumors stopped growing...
...There are 500,000 patients dying each yearfrom advanced cancer and 1.3 million new cancerpatients each year," Folkman says.Courtesy of The New England Journal ofMedicineCANCER AND THE ANGIOGENIC LINK: An insitu carcinoma grows to form a tumor. There aretwo types of cells: angiogenic tumor cells andnon-angiogenic cells. The cancer spreads to otherparts of the body (metastasis). Either angiogenictumor cells or non-angiogenic cells exist. Theangiogenic tumor cells can rapidly grow and bedetected in the clinic...
...upsetting. Willey, according to a source, sent Clinton a book on dealing with loss shortly after his mother died and less than two months after the encounter. She also sent the President friendly notes and asked him to arrange a visit for a friend of hers with a brain tumor. These are hardly the actions of an aggrieved woman. Further, last year Willey called Nancy Hernreich, director of Oval Office Operations, to warn the White House that Isikoff was nosing around, but she assured Hernreich that she had nothing to divulge...
BOSTON--Sedated and sand-bagged, a large gray-and-white dog named Poochie lies motionless on a gurney. His mouth is wedged open to allow the linear accelerator above his head to aim radiation directly at the malignant tumor blocking his nasal passages...