Tumours grow faster without blood-supply promoting molecule

Monday, November 10, 2008 - 09:35 in Health & Medicine

Dense networks of blood vessels thought to spur cancer's growth could actually hinder rather than promote tumour progression, according to a new study at the University of California, San Diego. The findings partly explain why drugs designed to treat cancer by strangling its blood supply have been disappointing when used alone and why those treatments are more effective when combined with traditional chemotherapy...

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