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Rather than excising the organ which is playing host to the tumor--often a dangerous or impossible procedure--the Harvard researchers found that they could inject a drug to halt the growth of blood vessels near the tumor, thus starving the cancer...
Scientists aren't sure why cell shape should so adversely affect cell growth. Nonetheless, the discovery was important, since a drug which represses cell growth is precisely what you want to stem a tumor's growth...
...chemical fiddling was enough to clear up the difficulty. Ingber and his colleagues synthesized from scratch in the laboratory an artificial likeness of fumagillin with all the tumor-suppressing capability, but without the side effects. The drug is known chemically...
Aside from the brief flashes of optimism, all parties involved in the research are quick to dampen unbounded enthusiasm. Thus far, the Harvard research has concentrated solely on breast cancer, a relatively "easy" type of tumor for clinical study...
Although breast cancer is of major scientific and clinical import--about 150,000 American women each year are afflicted with the disease--researchers are still in the dark about whether the same mechanism for tumor growth applies to all other cancers. Weidner's group is just now beginning to repeat the breast cancer research, by performing similar tests on prostate cancers...