Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Doc: Drugs Won't End Chemotherapy > BOSTON (AP) -- Even if two drugs that have eliminated > tumors in mice are effective in humans someday, they > will not replace other cancer treatments, says the > researcher whose lab is credited with the discovery. > > ``However they will be used, they will be added to > chemotherapy and radiotherapy and gene therapy and > immunotherapy and vaccine therapy,'' Dr. Judah Folkman > told The Boston Globe. > > Folkman, a doctor at Children's Hospital and Harvard > Medical School, said he canceled a keynote speech > scheduled for today at a Boston symposium on prostate > cancer because he was concerned about the recent media > attention on the drugs -- the proteins angiostatin and > endostatin. > > He noted that their elimination of cancer is only in > mice. ``It's got a ways to go to get into people, but > there is hope to get there,'' he said. > > It will be 12 to 18 months before the company licensed > to develop the drugs will have enough to begin human > trials. > > The two proteins are called angiogenesis inhibitors > because they block the growth of new blood vessels that > feed tumors. > > They were discovered in Folkman's laboratory by Dr. > Michael O'Reilly. Reports about the research gained > wide attention after The New York Times published a > front-page story about it in its Sunday editions. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
