Taming Vessels to Treat Cancer

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“Restoring order to the chaotic blood vessels inside a tumor opens a window of opportunity for attacking it. Surprisingly, drugs meant to destroy vasculature can make the repairs and may help reverse conditions that lead to cardiovascular disease and blindness

IN BRIEF

Abnormal and dysfunctional blood vessels are a hallmark of solid tumors, one that contributes directly to malignant properties of a cancer as well as preventing treatments from reaching and attacking tumor cells.

Normalizing tumor vessels allows cancer therapies to penetrate the mass and to function more effectively.

Unexpectedly, drugs originally designed to destroy tumor blood vessels act to repair them for a time, opening a new avenue for cancer treatment as well as restoration of abnormal vasculature in other diseases.“

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... er-tumors/