1. The treatment should shrink the tumor. 2. Also, scientists have shrunk tumors by blocking the protein with drugs. 3. An FDA advisory panel also recommends approval of a Hoffman LaRoche drug that promises to help shrink the tumors of women with advanced breast cancer. 4. And ongoing animal experiments with combinations of yet more powerful drugs are raising the stunning prospect of being able to shrink tumors out of existence. 5. Because lowering testosterone is already known to shrink prostate tumors, the company may not need to show longer survival times to win approval. 6. After two months, his tumor had shrunk to the size of a golf ball, and at five months, all that remained was scar tissue. 7. But the drug did shrink tumors more often than the placebo. 8. Can it shrink tumors, as promised? 9. Doctors had hoped the therapy would shrink the tumor but it only stopped it in its tracks. 10. Endostatin, an angiogenesis inhibitor, has demonstrated in mice a striking ability to shrink tumors by cutting off the blood supply they must have to grow and spread. |