Blood vessel inhibitor shows promise against metastatic thyroid cancer

Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 10:35 in Health & Medicine

Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some patients, a research team led by investigators from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the July 3rd edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

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