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Article: ANTI-ANGIOGENESIS DRUGS MAY FOIL TUMORS BY BUILDING UP BLOOD VESSELS, NOT TEARING THEM DOWN, MOORES UCSD CANCER CENTER SCIENTISTS FIND
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- Article date:
- November 10, 2008
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The University of California at San Diego issued the following press release:
Scientists have thought that one way to foil a tumor from generating blood vessels to feed its growth - a process called angiogenesis - was by creating drugs aimed at stopping a key vessel growth-promoting protein. But now the opposite seems to be true.
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla have found evidence that blocking that protein target, called VEGF, or vascular endothelial growth factor, doesn't really halt the process at all. Instead, cutting levels of VEGF in a tumor actually props up existing blood vessels, making them stronger and more ...