Cancer Therapies (Anti-Angiogenesis)

Scientists Defend Physician's Experimental Approach

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 30th, 1998

Researchers are coming to the defense of a Boston, Massachusetts, scientist whose much-publicized strategy of wiping out cancer tumors by cutting off their blood supply is facing increasing skepticism.

The researchers said that they can make the approach work even if others can't.

The strategy, developed by Dr. Judah Folkman, Children's Hospital in Boston, involves natural proteins that destroy cancer by choking off its blood supply.

Folkman's work came to wide attention in May 1998 after an upbeat page-one story in The New York Times. On November 12, 1998, The Wall Street Journal reported that a number of experts - including...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1998-11-30)

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