How chemotherapy drugs block blood vessel growth, slow cancer spread

Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 17:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how a whole class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs can block cancer growth. Their findings, reported online this week at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, suggest that a subgroup of cancer patients might particularly benefit from these drugs.

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