Do imaging biomarkers relate to outcome in patients treated with VEGF inhibitors?

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6588-6598

  O'Connor, James P B ^a,c   Jayson, Gordon C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CEDIRANIB; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FLOXURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TIOGUANINE; TUMOR MARKER; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; VATALANIB;

ACCURACY; ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CELL POPULATION HETEROGENEITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLASMA VOLUME; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SPIN LABELING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR DENSITY; TUMOR GROWTH STIMULATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; GLIOMA; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84871232551     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-12-1501     Document Type: Review

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