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- noun medicine The prevention of
angiogenesis , the growth of newblood vessels .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Folkman believed that disrupting this blood supply, called antiangiogenesis, could starve tumors.
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There are a lot of labs working on antiangiogenesis drugs.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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The first, obviously, was the bright light of his initial concept, the two altered moieties on the leading antiangiogenesis drug that led to vascumab.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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Today, 10 antiangiogenesis drugs for cancer have been approved in the United States, helping more than 1.2 million patients with cancers of colon, lung, breast, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach and bone marrow live longer and better.
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The work of Dr. Folkman, who died at 74 this past Monday of an apparent heart attack while traveling to give a lecture, helped create the antiangiogenesis field, which today includes big-selling drugs such as Genentech Inc. 's Avastin.
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Targeting the cell's growth machinery has long been the goal of antiangiogenesis, which attempts to cut off a tumor's blood supply.
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Targeting the cell's growth machinery has long been the goal of antiangiogenesis, which attempts to cut off a tumor's blood supply.
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WEIL: I think that the research being done on immunotherapy, gene therapy, antiangiogenesis therapy, I think all these things look more promising to me than our current approaches.
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And I think what we see on the horizon are treatments like gene therapy, immunotherapy, or this antiangiogenesis therapy, in which we can block the development of new blood vessels that feed cancer.
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She also guided several important national clinical trials of potential new therapies, including chemoendocrine therapy for premenopausal breast cancer and antiangiogenesis therapy for advanced disease.
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