Antiangiogenic Agents in Cancer Therapy

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Angiogenesis, the formation of new vessels from existing microvasculature, is a tremendously complex and intricate process, essentiaI for embryogenesis and development of multicellular organisms (1), but it occurs only rarely in adult tissues in a tightly controlled manner during normal wound healing and the female reproductive cycle (corpus luteum, placenta, and uterus) (2).