Friday, January 24, 2014

Antiangeiogenesis

In Biology we learned about anti-angiogenesis. We watched a TED talk about it.

Anti-angiogenesis is a very unique and innovative technique for eliminating cancerous tumors. The word angiogenesis means, the creation of new blood cells. Creating new blood cells sounds like a good thing unless it is to feed a cancerous tumor. Some foods are anti-angiogenic which means they slow down the creation of new blood cells which in turns starves the tumor of blood.

I think this is very cool. It is good to know that there are other less harmful ways of treating and most importantly preventing cancer in the first place. This new innovation could be revolutionary in preventing and curing cancerous tumors. I support this idea and think it could be very helpful.