"Tumor vasculature" refers to the network of blood vessels that supply nutrients and oxygen to a tumor or cancerous growth.
Sentences with «tumor vasculature»
Early observations suggesting that the virus might attack cancer in part by damaging blood vessels that feed tumor growth led the SillaJen team to strike up a collaboration with McDonald, an expert in tumor vasculature, to investigate the virus's mechanism of action in animal models. (ucsf.edu)
Rehemtulla adds that if other FDA - approved chemotherapeutic agents reach their targets as successfully as Photofrin did, «then we will have developed a way to make cancer drugs more «tumor - specific,» because they will only get into tumor vasculature and not normal vasculature. (scientificamerican.com)
As expected, trastuzumab distribution was heterogeneous and localized in the vicinity of tumor vasculature. (journals.plos.org)