A Relatively New Strategy for Treating Certain Tumors Is to Prevent

question 7

Multiple Choice

A relatively new strategy for treating certain tumors is to prevent the formation of new blood vessels,thus impairing tumor growth by starving the tumor of oxygen and nutrients.Drugs that use this strategy are known as

• A) topoisomerase inhibitors
• B) angiogenesis inhibitors
• C) aromatase inhibitors
• D) antimetabolites
• E) none of the above are true

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