11.   One patient, an Illinois history professor, said his tumors shrank dramatically after he took an anti-angiogenic compound called vitaxin.

12.   One cancer patient, an Illinois history professor, said his tumors shrank dramatically after he took an antiangiogenic compound.

13.   Some see their tumors shrink and others are cured, he said.

14.   Some tumors shrank and a few disappeared, but others showed no chance.

15.   The tumors shrank because Iressa, which is made by AstraZeneca, blocks an important enzyme, tyrosine kinase.

16.   The tumors shrank, the nausea stopped, and for a while, it looked like Mom might beat the odds.

17.   The tumor was shrinking and the chemotherapy became easier with each session.

18.   The tumors had shrunk in one of these two patients.

19.   The study was the first of its kind, Minna said, in making a tumor shrink by correcting a specific genetic flaw in the cancer cells themselves.

20.   The vaccine could give high-risk patients whose tumors shrink after conventional chemotherapy a safeguard against recurrence.