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antiangiogenesis

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antiangiogenesis
Oncology Prevention of the growth of new blood vessels into a solid tumor. See angiogenesis.


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For the past dozen years, drugs that inhibit the growth of new blood vessels - a strategy called antiangiogenesis - have been the main hope of conventional oncology.
Antiangiogenesis is a hot topic in anti cancer therapy.
Although the researchers didn't test the impact of antiangiogenesis drugs in this study, Iruela-Arispe says that "long-term blockage of [VEGF] may have long-term consequences that we did not foresee a few years ago.
 
 
 
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