Video: Cancer Warriors

  1. Is endostatin like other drugs (act as a poison)?

  1. What is chemotherapy?

  1. How do patients feel after a chemotherapy treatment?

  1. Does chemotherapy always work?

  1. How many times a week does Duane have to get endostatin treatments?

  1. Who discovered endostatin?

  1. How many years did it take?

  1. What originally were cancer drugs used for?

  1. Are these drugs toxic to all cells in your body?

  1. What are the side effects of these drugs?

  1. What is another problem with chemotherapy?

  1. What does endostatin do differently?

  1. Do cancer cells need a food supply to live?

  1. What kind of cells did Folkman inject into the thyroid gland?

  1. Why did he do it?

  1. What did the tumors do that was surprising?

  1. What happened when they put those same tumor cells in the mouse?

  1. What was the difference between the mouse and thyroid gland?

  1. What question arose out of his observation?

  1. What did he notice that was around tumors that he removed?

  1. What does angiogenesis mean?

  1. How can a tumor grow?

  1. What does a tumor do to get a blood supply? (according to Folkman)

  1. Did other scientists agree with him?

  1. When does angiogenesis take place in the body?

  1. What idea of Folkman’s was met with the most resistance?

  1. Did most researchers see tumors inside the body like Folkman?

  1. Are there blood vessels in a cornea?

  1. What happened when tumor cells were placed in the rabbit cornea?

  1. What happened when the tumor was removed?

  1. What is the next question to investigate?

  1. Is separating or purifying a molecule a tedious process?

  1. Which proteins come out first? Last?

  1. How long did it take?

  1. What happened when they inserted the protein in the rabbit cornea?

  1. What was the next question he asked?

  1. What did he call these, yet non existent, chemicals?

  1. Where did he look for the molecules first?

  1. What would happen if the pellet had an inhibitor?

  1. Are all discoveries in science come from a well though out plan?

  1. What was growing in one of his cancer cell culture?

  1. What did the fungus do to the cancer cells?

  1. What happened to the cells closest to the fungus? Farthest?

  1. What did he hypothesize?

  1. Did the fungus inhibit angiogenesis?

  1. Did they continue looking for better inhibitors?

  1. Where did Robert D’amato start looking for a better inhibitor? What types of drugs?

  1. What time in a woman’s life is angiogenesis crucial?

  1. What did thalidomide do?

  1. When thalidomide was placed on the egg what happened?

  1. For thalidomide to be active what has to happen?

  1. Did it work now?

  1. Why are metastases bad?

  1. Can cancer cells travel around the body? How?

  1. In what circumstance do metastases come to life and grow?

  1. What did Noel Bouck discover?

  1. Can the inhibitor be found in the tumor itself?

  1. Where did he decide to look next?

  1. How long did it take to find?

  1. What did they name the chemical?

  1. What did they name the other chemical?

  1. Is endostatin a cure?