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...Some of these therapies prevent a class of chemicals called growth factors from reaching a tumor, blocking signals that would otherwise instruct the cell to grow out of control. Others tip the delicate balance that every cell maintains between life and death, driving cancerous cells to self-destruct. Still others block enzymes that cancer cells use to chew openings in normal tissues and give themselves room to expand. And, most famously, the class of compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson...
Some of these therapies prevent a class of chemicals called growth factors from reaching a tumor, blocking signals that would otherwise instruct the cell to grow out of control. Others tip the delicate balance that every cell maintains between life and death, driving cancerous cells to self-destruct. Still others block enzymes that cancer cells use to chew openings in normal tissues and give themselves room to expand. And, most famously, the class of compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson...
...bottom on the third, the Big Red began to self-destruct. Cornell shortstop Joanne Keck committed two costly errors as the Crimson scored two more runs without getting a single...
Glivec is just one of several new therapies that work by cutting a cancer cell's lines of communication, either preventing it from reproducing or forcing it to self-destruct. Other signal-jamming treatments use monoclonal antibodies, tiny proteins that resemble the human immune system's own antibodies but that bind to the surface of cancer cells. New York City- based ImClone Systems has an antibody called IMC-C225, now in the final phases of testing in colorectal and head and neck cancer, that acts like bubble gum stuffed in a keyhole. It prevents a specialized protein known...
...cocktails of treatments, each using a different strategy to outfox the cancer. In the future, traditional chemotherapy will be combined with other cell-killing treatments like the COX-2 inhibitors, drugs that are chemically related to pain-killers like ibuprofen and that appear to force cancer cells to self-destruct. Chemotherapy will also be used with treatments that aim simply to stop tumors from growing, such as the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively nontoxic compounds that blunt the growth of new capillaries...