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Despite great efforts and resources being devoted to treatment, the incidence and mortality of numerous cancers have not decreased in recent decades. This is a result of the resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents and radio-therapy. The development of antiangiogenic agents that target vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) provides a new option for treatment of cancer. Major advances have been achieved with cancer therapy based on antiangiogenic VEGF-targeted agents in the past few years, and some of the recently approved therapies are now being used in daily clinical practice. A further challenge is finding a more efficacious combination of antiangiogenic VEGF-targeted therapies and conventional radio- and chemotherapies. This review outlines the current preclinical and clinical cancer treatments using optimized combinations of antiangiogenic VEGF-targeted agents and conventional radiochemotherapy and highlights that better scheduling for the combination of radiochemotherapy and antiangiogenic VEGF-targeted agents should be developed to achieve better treatment outcomes.