In search of a real "targeted" therapy for thyroid cancer.

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Publication/Presentation Date

4-1-2012

Abstract

Over the past 5 years, patients with progressive radioactive iodine-refractory thyroid cancer have responded to "targeted" multikinase inhibitors, which inhibit angiogenesis and not the tumor cell. Here, selumetinib targets the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in papillary thyroid carcinoma and shows limited single-agent activity in the patients with tumors that harbor the (V600E)BRAF mutation.

Volume

18

Issue

7

First Page

1827

Last Page

1829

ISSN

1557-3265

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

22451620

Department(s)

Hematology-Medical Oncology Division

Document Type

Article

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