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antiangiogenesis

Definitions

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  • noun medicine The prevention of angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ angiogenesis

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Examples

  • Folkman believed that disrupting this blood supply, called antiangiogenesis, could starve tumors.

    Dr. Dean Ornish: Top 10 Medical Events Of The Decade 2009

  • There are a lot of labs working on antiangiogenesis drugs.

    Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Dr. Dean Ornish: Top 10 Medical Events Of The Decade 2009

  • 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.

    Doctor Pioneered New Cancer Treatments 2008

  • Targeting the cell's growth machinery has long been the goal of antiangiogenesis, which attempts to cut off a tumor's blood supply.

    A Step Past Chemotherapy 2007

  • Targeting the cell's growth machinery has long been the goal of antiangiogenesis, which attempts to cut off a tumor's blood supply.

    A Step Past Chemotherapy 2007

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2004 2004

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2001 2001

  • 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.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

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