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William Li presents a new way to think about cancer treatment: angiogenesis, targeting the blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that beat cancer at its own game.
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these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts.William Li presents a new way to think about cancer treatment: angiogenesis, targeting the blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that beat cancer at its own game.
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Prevent Disease.com
July 26, 2013 by DR. MARIANNA POCHELLI
Anti-Angiogenic Compounds Used In Drugs To Treat Cancer Are Found Naturally In Over 30 Foods
Angiogenesis
is the process of building new blood vessels and is inherently
coordinated with building new tissue, but increased angiogenesis can
also have a deadly side effect - a distinguishing characteristic of
cancer growth. Some cancer treatments for halting the growth of
cancer-feeding blood vessels have been successful in treating tumors.
This term is known as anti-angiogenesis. Although several drugs have
been incorporated with isolated anti-angiogenic compounds, there are
more than 30 dietary sources of naturally-occurring anti-angiogenic
substances.Angiogenesis plays a critical role in the growth and spread of cancer. A blood supply is necessary for tumors to grow beyond a few millimeters in size. Tumors can cause this blood supply to form by giving off chemical signals that stimulate angiogenesis. Tumors can also stimulate nearby normal cells to produce angiogenesis signaling molecules. The resulting new blood vessels “feed” growing tumors with oxygen and nutrients, allowing the cancer cells to invade nearby tissue, to move throughout the body, and to form new colonies of cancer cells, called metastases.
Foods with natural anti-angiogenic compounds do not have the serious side effects which are now being found in angiogenic drug inhibitors.Dr. William Li, the president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation recently spoke at a TED conference above.
“Angiogenesis is what makes the difference between a small, innocuous cancer and a runaway, dangerous disease,” says Li. Our bodies carry thousands of microscopic dormant tumors on a constant basis. Thankfully, our immune systems naturally prevent them from becoming larger and potentially harmful through the process of angiogenesis and vessel growth.
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