VEGF in nuclear medicine: Clinical application in cancer and future perspectives (Review).
Int J Oncol
; 49(2): 437-47, 2016 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Clinical trials using antiangiogenic drugs revealed their potential against cancer. Unfortunately, a large percentage of patients does not yet benefit from this therapeutic approach highlighting the need of diagnostic tools to non-invasively evaluate and monitor response to therapy. It would also allow to predict which kind of patient will likely benefit of antiangiogenic therapy. Reasons for treatment failure might be due to a low expression of the drug targets or prevalence of other pathways. Molecular imaging has been therefore explored as a diagnostic technique of choice. Since the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF/VEGFR) pathway is the main responsible of tumor angiogenesis, several new drugs targeting either the soluble ligand or its receptor to inhibit signaling leading to tumor regression could be involved. Up today, it is difficult to determine VEGF or VEGFR local levels and their non-invasive measurement in tumors might give insight into the available target for VEGF/VEGFR-dependent antiangiogenic therapies, allowing therapy decision making and monitoring of response.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Inibidores da Angiogênese
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Fator A de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular
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Neoplasias
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Medicina Nuclear
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Int J Oncol
Assunto da revista:
NEOPLASIAS
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália