中医药抑制肿瘤血管生成抗肿瘤转移的可行性探讨

Feasibility for inhibiting tumor metastasis with Chinese herbal medicines as angiogenesis inhibitors

抑制肿瘤血管生成是控制肿瘤生长和转移的重要途径之一,以肿瘤血管形成为靶点的血管生成抑制剂研究已成为当前肿瘤基础理论和临床研究的热点。本文以传统中医药理论为基础,探讨了中医药抗肿瘤血管生成抗肿瘤转移的可行性及目前中药抗肿瘤血管生成的研究进展。认为从中药中筛选开发具有抑制肿瘤新生血管生成和阻断肿瘤转移途径的新药,对于控制肿瘤侵袭、转移、改善患者预后和提高生存率具有十分重要的意义。

Anti-angiogenesis is one of the important ways to control tumor growth and metastasis, and searching for anti-angiogenesis herbs targeting tumor angiogenesis has become a hot topic in both basic and clinical research for tumor. Utilizing the traditional Chinese medicine theory, authors of this article discussed the feasibility and research of anti-angiogenesis effect of Chinese medicine on tumor. To develop new drugs inhibiting tumor angiogenesis from the Chinese native herbal medicine has an extremely vital significance in blocking tumor invasion and metastasis, as well as improving the patients＇ prognosis and their survival rates.