Can Cancer Tumors Be Starved To Death
Faith Lowe
Period 6 Can Cancer Tumors be starved to death?
For scientists to even think about answering the question, Can Cancer Tumors be starved to death? They have to first find out what tumors need to grow, what can kill a tumor, and what happens when a tumor is a solid. For a tumor to grow it must obtain from the body's blood supply all the food and nutrients it needs to make more cancer cells. If a tumor doesn’t get the food and nutrients the it won’t grow. To get these foods and nutrients tumors leak out substances into thesurrounding tissues that encourage angiogenesis, the formation of small blood vessels. This call for more blood vessels insures an ever-greater flow of blood to the tumor as it grows larger. Angiostatin and
Period 6 Can Cancer Tumors be starved to death?
For scientists to even think about answering the question, Can Cancer Tumors be starved to death? They have to first find out what tumors need to grow, what can kill a tumor, and what happens when a tumor is a solid. For a tumor to grow it must obtain from the body's blood supply all the food and nutrients it needs to make more cancer cells. If a tumor doesn’t get the food and nutrients the it won’t grow. To get these foods and nutrients tumors leak out substances into thesurrounding tissues that encourage angiogenesis, the formation of small blood vessels. This call for more blood vessels insures an ever-greater flow of blood to the tumor as it grows larger. Angiostatin and