Breast Cancer

New Blood Vessel Growth Related To Tumor Recurrence After Dormancy

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 29th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer - Scientists in Italy suggest that breast cancer patients with substantial blood vessel growth in their primary tumors have a greater chance for tumor recurrence several years after receiving adjuvant chemotherapy

Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, increases the risk for tumor metastasis and recurrence in breast cancer patients. Researchers have developed a rating system that quantifies tumor vessel growth in breast cancer tumors. The data from that system significantly correlate angiogenesis with recurrent breast cancer and metastasis after lengthy periods of tumor dormancy.

"We determined the...

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