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. 2017 Mar 22;8(4):2301–2323. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.002301

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Tumor angiogenesis in cancer at different stages: (a) The tumor release growth factors that activate the growing cells generating blood vessel sprouts. (b) The blood vessels feed the tumor that growths thanks to cell proliferation. (c) The tumor becomes vascularized and it starts to metastasize through the blood stream (from webpage [33]).