You are a cancer researcher and want to develop a treatment

You are a cancer researcher and want to develop a treatment that will prevent tumors from growing larger by cutting off the amount of nutrients and oxygen they get. What aspect of cancer development are you most likely going to be targeting in your treatment?

Solution

angiogenesis is the process were new blood vessel formation takes place in order to provide nutrients to the tissue but during cancer tumor cells secrete vascular endothelial growth factor which is a powerful angiogenic agent. angiogenesis & lymphangiogenesis has a significant role in transporting the oxygen & other essential nutrients to the malignant cells.There fore using angiogenesis inhibitors we can inhibit the angiogenesis.sorafenib,sunitinib are some antiangiogenic drugs used in treatment of certain cancers such as renal cell carcinoma,hepatocellular carcinoma,thyroid carcinoma, meningioma etc