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Abbott Researchers Focus on New Cutting-Edge Approaches in the Fight Against Cancer
May 1st, 2007
For decades, scientists have looked for new therapies that target cancer. Researchers now know that cancer cells have several unique characteristics -- they require new blood vessels to deliver oxygen and nutrients (angiogenesis), they grow uncontrollably (proliferation), they travel throughout the body (metastasis), and they escape programmed cell death, a natural process by which the body rids itself of damaged or unwanted cells (apoptosis). Robust preclinical data shows that several compounds in Abbott's oncology pipeline interfere with these vital processes. Data on two of these compounds will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting being held...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-05-01)
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