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From the Editors

Nature Reviews Cancer 8, 565 (1 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrc2457

From the editors

In his seminal 1971 New England Journal of Medicine paper M. Judah Folkman wrote, “The mechanism by which tumour implants stimulate neovascularization must be well understood before therapy based on interference with angiogenesis can be devised.” Although research on angiogenesis was well-founded by this time, its potential therapeutic value for treating patients with cancer had not been voiced.