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Nature 390, 335-336 (27 November 1997) | doi:10.1038/36978

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A cancer therapy resistant to resistance

Robert S. Kerbel1

The relentless growth of tumours depends on a good blood supply, and thus on subverting host mechanisms for making blood vessels. Attack on that process provides a promising route for treating cancer, but one that may take some years to reach clinical fruition.

  1. Robert S. Kerbel is at the University of Toronto, and in the Cancer Research Program, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Research Building S-218, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5.
    e-mail: Email: kerbel@srcl.sunnybrook.utoronto.ca