Cancer biologist Robert Benezra explains angiogenesis, the process by which new blood vessels form, and how it relates to cancer research. Angiogenesis is the process by which new blood vessels form, ...

Oncologists have a variety of medicines they can use to treat cancer. Each drug works in a different way, so doctors often give patients different types of drug at the same time to deliver a one-two ...

Q One of Your Major Research Focuses Is Angiogenesis Treatment. What Led You to Initially Work in This Area? When I was finishing my MD PhD and I was thinking about what I would do after Yale ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have discovered a new biological pathway that may be useful in regulating angiogenesis, the process the body uses to build new blood vessels. The findings, published in the ...

Abnormal angiogenesis also occurs in diabetic nephropathy; therefore, the overriding question is whether new vessel formation in the kidney plays a pathological role in diabetic nephropathy similar to ...

About this issue Abstract We describe that galectin-1 (gal-1) is a receptor for the angiogenesis inhibitor anginex, and that the protein is crucial for tumor angiogenesis. gal-1 is overexpressed in ...

Breast cancer, the most common cancer among women, is notorious for its ability to develop resistance to a wide range of treatments, including surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapies, and ...

In the past few years, the media have written numerous, hopeful stories of how scientists are stifling tumors by inhibiting blood vessel growth. But the drugs based on this strategy--Endostatin, ...

Modulating angiogenesis is an attractive goal because many pathological conditions depend on the growth of new vessels. Angiogenesis is mainly regulated by the VEGF, a mitogen specific for endothelial ...

Transcript:Edward S. Kim, MD: For decades, we used 2-drug chemotherapy—that’s how we treated the majority of our lung cancer patients. Over time, we’ve tried many times to see if we can add more ...