{
  "id": 18148547,
  "title": "Alternative pathways for blood vessel growth could become targets against drug-resistant tumors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/alternative-pathways-for-blood-vessel-growth-could-become-targets",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-04T16:00:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-11-alternative-pathways-blood-vessel-growth.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), together with international collaborators, have uncovered previously unknown mechanisms that allow blood vessels to grow even in the absence of VEGF–VEGFR2 signaling, one of the best-known and most widely targeted pathways in clinical efforts to block tumor angiogenesis, growth and metastasis.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}