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Normally, the body tightly regulates the stimulation and inhibition of new blood vessels. Tumors, however, produce inducers to stimulate the creation of blood vessels near the tumor, and inhibitors which prevent the creation of vessels in distant parts of the body, said Bouck...
...Folkman] realized if one cancer cell produced a little inhibitor, a large tumor produces many," Bouck said...
...Angiostatin has] been very effective in blocking the growth of metastases in mice," said Dr. Michael S. O'Reilly, a member of the Boston team. "It has reduced primary tumor size by 70 percent or better. Existing metastases become dormant...
...separate two Siamese twins, even though both may die?) and St. Elsewhere-style modernism (the surgeons sing Midnight Train to Georgia around the operating table). Kelley tries to bring the format into the '90s: one early plot line involves a woman whose hmo won't allow her brain-tumor operation to be performed by the more experienced surgeons at Chicago Hope. Yet these doctors are self-righteous heroes of the old TV school. Hospital executive, arguing against performing the dangerous Siamese-twin operation: "Our job is to look at the overall picture." Surgeon: "I held those babies in my arms...
...WAITS ANXIOUSLY AT HAVANA'S JOSE MARTI International Airport, scanning the arriving passengers for the courier from Miami. The life of his nine-year-old daughter, deathly ill with a cancerous tumor, hangs in the balance: the doctors have prescribed chemotherapy, but two of the five drugs needed for treatment are unobtainable in Cuba. Both medications are readily available in Miami, only a 30-minute flight away, but the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo bars the unlicensed sale of medicine to Cuba. The father's last hope lies with an old woman who has agreed to smuggle...