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Response: Re: A Model of Human Tumor Dormancy: An Angiogenic Escape From the Nonangiogenic Phenotype
Affiliation of authors: Department of Surgery, Vascular Biology Program, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (GNN, RSW, NA, JF); The Gade Institute, Section for Pathology, University of Bergen, Norway (LAA)
Correspondence to: Judah Folkman, MD, Karp Family Research Laboratories 12.128, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: judah.folkman@childrens.harvard.edu).
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We appreciate the comments of Sardari Nia et al. It is well established in the literature that all expanding tumors need a supporting vasculature. Sardari Nia et al. contend that large tumors can grow by co-option, a process that was first described by Holash et al. (1), who demonstrated that tumor cells can grow as perivascular cuffs in thickness no more than the oxygen
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2007 99: 331.