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Nature Medicine 7, 151 - 152 (2001)
doi:10.1038/84579

From angiogenesis to lymphangiogenesis

Karl H. Plate1

  1. Department of Neuropathology Institute of Pathology FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    e-mail: plate@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de


Vascular endothelial growth factors are well-known angiogenic agents and targets for anti-cancer therapies. Now it appears that this signaling pathway is also involved in developmental and tumor-induced lymphangiogenesis (pages 186-191, 192-198, 199-205).


Cancer is the second most common cause of death in Western societies, responsible for approximately 563,100 deaths in the United States in 1999 (ref. 1).