These tumors tend to crop up near major blood vessels in the lungs, and blocking VEGF can prevent those blood vessels from repairing themselves, leading to potentially fatal hemorrhaging.
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Angelica Peebles,
CNBC,
31 May 2026
The pills’ effects eventually wane but recipients used them for significantly longer than the comparison group stayed on chemotherapy, reporting less pain and a better quality of life as their tumors shrank.
Lung and breast cancers showed the biggest reductions Researchers found lower rates of cancer progression in six of the seven cancer types studied among patients taking GLP-1 drugs.
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Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
23 May 2026
Researchers found that patients who took GLP-1 drugs appeared to have lower rates of metastatic progression in all of the cancers except for kidney cancer.
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