Sentences with phrase «prevent tumor blood vessel»

Therapies that prevent tumor blood vessel growth are often used in clinics to fight cancer — but they are only effective in a particular subset of patients.

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«What we may be looking at,» he adds, «is a future way to prevent metastasis to many organs simultaneously» using drugs that make tumor cells let go of the blood vessels they cling to.

«If we could prevent development of the new blood vessels in the cancer tissue driven by these signals, tumor growth and metastasis can be slowed down or prevented.»

One goal of drug designers has been to prevent tumors from making new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis.

Eventually, it could form the basis for a treatment to prevent a tumor from attracting new blood vessels.

Some analyses have questioned whether the passive targeting strategy, which depends on the circulating medication slipping through the unique apertures of a tumor, is effective, noting that the blood vessels that spring up around tumors may not be as porous as originally thought, and therefore may prevent large quantities of the nanodrug from reaching its target.

More than 90 percent of patients with either high nm23, a protein that prevents the cancer from spreading, or low angiogenesis, minimal growth of new blood vessels to supply the budding tumor, were alive an average of 14 years after treatment, compared to only 70 percent of those with low nm23 or high vessel density.

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Van Meirâ $ ™ s laboratory has been studying a tumor suppressor protein called BAI1 (brain angiogenesis inhibitor 1), which prevents tumor and blood vessel growth.

Red clover (Trifolium pratense) contains genistein, an anticancer compound that prevents new blood vessels from forming with in a tumor.

They also act aggressively against cancer by preventing cancer cell proliferation, inducing apoptosis — or cancer cell «suicide» — and inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels that nourish tumor growth.

And, although this effect may help to prevent heart attacks and other forms of heart disease, it may have the potential to promote cancer as well by increasing the growth of blood vessels in cancerous tumors.