Role of vandetanib in the management of medullary thyroid cancer

Biologics: Targets and Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 59-65

  Brassard, Maryse ^a   Rondeau, Geneviève ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Medullary thyroid cancer; Ret mutation; Vandetanib; Vefgr

Indexed keywords

AXITINIB; CABOZANTINIB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LEVOTHYROXINE; PLACEBO; PROTEIN RET; SUNITINIB; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; VANDETANIB; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADVANCED CANCER; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTERY OCCLUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORNEA DISEASE; DECREASED APPETITE; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KERATOPATHY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METASTASIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OCULAR SURFACE DISEASE; ONCOGENE RET; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEINURIA; QT PROLONGATION; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84866762111     PISSN: 11775475     EISSN: 11775491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/btt.s24220     Document Type: Review

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