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Article: ANTI-CANCER DRUGS HELP IN BUILDING, NOT DESTROYING BLOOD VESSELS
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- The Hindustan Times
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- November 10, 2008
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London, Nov. 10 -- (ANI): Scientists have now discovered that anti-cancer drugs, earlier believed to tear down blood vessels, actually help in building stronger and more normal blood vessels.Previously it was believed that it was possible to cease angiogenesis, a process in which tumour generates blood vessels to feed its growth, by creating drugs targeting at stopping a key vessel growth-promoting protein, called VEGF, or vascular endothelial growth factor.But now, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla have found evidence that blocking VEGF may not really ...