It's how eggs become implanted into the placenta and how we develop into normal, healthy babies. In adults, it helps in wound healing. In 1972 Harvard researcher Dr. Judah Folkman first proposed that angiogenesis also helps tumors to form new blood vessels, and that cutting off the tumor's blood supply could save lives. Angiogenesis research is now one of the hottest areas of cancer drug development. Evans estimates that at least a dozen angiogenesis inhibitors are currently being tested in clinical trials across the country, including a Phase II trial at the UC Davis Cancer Center.
Angiogenesis is critical to cancer progression.
Without nutrients, the average prostate tumor cannot grow beyond three millimeters - a little bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. All rights reserved.