Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team worked from the simplistic theory that without its own blood supply, a tumor could not grow beyond minuscule size...
...later, NCI researchers announced that they had been able to reduce tumor size using one of Folkman's drugs, endostatin...
...achieve tumor reduction, Folkman's treatment inhibits angiogenesis, the growth of blood vessels within the tumor. Two of the main drugs used are named endostatin and angiostatin...
Schotz, the 41-year-old CEO of LMNOP (Leave My Name Off Productions), corners the freak-show stuff, concocting faster-paced versions of That's Incredible! His Fox series Guinness World Records: Primetime features oddities like worm-eating contests and the world's largest tumor, and his upcoming Fox special World's Most Shocking Medical Videos has footage of a woman's nose being regrown on her forehead. Schotz also makes the more wholesome Kids Say the Darndest Things and Behind Closed Doors with Joan Lunden. Lachman, who not long ago was known for creating Solid Gold and for winning...
...medical missionary named Denis Burkitt suggested that the reason colon cancer is rare in Africa is that Africans consume much more fiber than North Americans and Europeans. Perhaps, later researchers argued, the extra fiber sweeps the bowel clean of potential carcinogens or somehow alters the intestinal chemistry to retard tumor growth. A few small studies supported the link, while others didn...