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Phase 2 studies of sunitinib and AG013736 in patients with cytokine-refractory renal cell carcinoma.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Jan 2007
George Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Frequent loss of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene product in conventional-type renal cell carcinoma results in constitutive expression of proangiogenic growth factors, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). VEGF and PDGF function in a paracrine manner to stimulate tumor angiogenesis that results in a hypervascular phenotype. Dependency on this...
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