A promise unfulfilled.
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Submitted by Dr.Kattlove’s Cancer Blog
Judah Folkman died suddenly early this year. He was a super creative cancer researcher. His work promised a revolution in cancer treatment but it never happened.
I first encountered him when I was training in Hematology at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. He presented his work at one of our research seminars. He had found that he could grow cancer cells within the eyes of rabbits. But they had to be planted on the iris. That allowed blood vessels to begin growing into the tiny tumors and once that happened the tumors took off. If the cancer cells were placed in the middle of the eye chamber without attachment to any eye tissue, blood vessels didn’t develop and the cancer didn’t grow.
