Taming vessels to treat cancer
RK Jain - Scientific American, 2008 - JSTOR
Scientific American, 2008•JSTOR
While still a graduate student in 1974, I had a chance to see malignant tumors from a most
unusual perspective. I was working at the National Cancer Institute in the laboratory of the
late Pietro M. Gullino, who had developed an innovative experimental setup for studying
cancer biology—a tumor mass that was connected to the circulatory system of a rat by just a
single artery and a single vein. As a chemical engineer, I decided to use this opportunity to
measure how much of a drug injected into the animal would flow to the tumor and back out …
unusual perspective. I was working at the National Cancer Institute in the laboratory of the
late Pietro M. Gullino, who had developed an innovative experimental setup for studying
cancer biology—a tumor mass that was connected to the circulatory system of a rat by just a
single artery and a single vein. As a chemical engineer, I decided to use this opportunity to
measure how much of a drug injected into the animal would flow to the tumor and back out …
While still a graduate student in 1974, I had a chance to see malignant tumors from a most unusual perspective. I was working at the National Cancer Institute in the laboratory of the late Pietro M. Gullino, who had developed an innovative experimental setup for studying cancer biology—a tumor mass that was connected to the circulatory system of a rat by just a single artery and a single vein. As a chemical engineer, I decided to use this opportunity to measure how much of a drug injected into the animal would flow to the tumor and back out again. Amazingly, most of the substance injected into the rat never entered the tumor. To make matters
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