Avastin is a target therapy. Specifically, it targets blood vessel growth.
See, a tumor is a living breathing growing organism. And, like most organisms, it needs a fuel supply.
So, what does it use?
Your already existing circulatory system.
And, if what you have isn’t enough, tumors can secrete a protein that tells your body to make new blood vessels.
More blood vessels mean more resources.
More resources means more tumor can live there.
And so the cells reproduce and the tumor grows.
And repeat…
Like bio-urbanization.
Avastin blocks the protein, VEGF, that the tumor uses to tell your body to grow more blood vessels.
Imagine, you’re at war with a “tumor city.”
It’s being bombed by radiation, killing its cancerous soldiers.
The chemo chemical weapons are killing their offspring before they’re even born.
And, Avastin is blockading the cells from importing resources, so they’re starved and unable to fix their wounded.
It’s just one more weapon or strategy that can help win the war.
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We’ll be talking about Avastin more technically later on…
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