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antiangiogenic

[ an-tee-an-jee-uh-jen-ik, an-tahy- ]

adjective

  1. noting or pertaining to a substance that reduces the growth of new blood vessels needed by tumors to grow and metastasize.


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Semaphorin 3A overcomes cancer hypoxia and metastatic dissemination induced by antiangiogenic treatment in mice.

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In a phase III trial that compared two common first-line antiangiogenic drugs, pazopanib and sunitinib, the response rates were just 31% and 24%, respectively.

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New immunotherapies have been reported to achieve lengthy responses: in a phase III trial of nivolumab in people who had previously been given antiangiogenic therapy, the response rate was a modest 25%, but many of the responses were long-lasting4.

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The rationale in this case is that the slowdown in tumour growth from the antiangiogenic treatment might create more favourable conditions for immunotherapy.

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“It isn’t clear whether this occurs substantially in human patients with cancer and whether this has anything to do with antiangiogenic therapies not working very well,” Dudley says.

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