11.   German researchers have dramatically shrunk advanced tumors in some kidney cancer patients using a vaccine strategy developed at Dana-Farber Cancer Institutein Boston.

12.   Hormone treatment is used initially to control the cancer by shrinking the tumor.

13.   If chemotherapy shrunk the tumor, the doctor thought he could remove the rest of it.

14.   If the drug shrinks tumors or boosts the number of immune cells, that may be enough to win approval.

15.   In conventional cancer drug development, companies look for immediate signs that the drugs can kill cells and shrink tumors before they give a green light for further testing.

16.   In other lung cancer news, vitamin A may prevent lung cancer in former smokers, and the experimental drug Iressa shrinks tumors in advanced lung cancer patients.

17.   In four of those cases, it shrank the tumors.

18.   In some early cases of disease, the drugs may shrink the tumor to a point where it can be surgically removed.

19.   In mouse experiments, aaAT dramatically shrank lung tumors that had been implanted on the backs of mice, and caused no apparent ill effects.

20.   In mouse experiments, endostatin has dramatically shrunk mouse tumors into invisibility and has done so without toxic effects.