How Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse

By AutoBlog at 18 January, 2012, 10:45 am

You’d think that a tumour shrinking would be considered good news for anyone suffering from cancer. Maybe not. Scientists have found that a type of cancer treatment aimed at shrinking tumours can actually make them spread more efficiently and kill patients quicker. Choking off a tumour’s blood supply with an approach called anti-angiogenesis is the mechanism of many cancer drugs, but a …

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