Intraobserver and interobserver variability in computed tomography size and attenuation measurements in patients with renal cell carcinoma receiving antiangiogenic therapy: Implications for alternative response criteria

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 711-721

  Krajewski, Katherine M ^a   Nishino, Mizuki ^a   Franchetti, Yoko ^a   Ramaiya, Nikhil H ^a   Van Den Abbeele, Annick D ^a   Choueiri, Toni K ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; computed tomography (CT) attenuation; interobserver variability; intraobserver variability; renal cell carcinoma; Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST); tumor shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; FORETINIB; PAZOPANIB; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TIVOZANIB; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; VATALANIB;

ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) ATTENUATION; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INTRAOBSERVER VARIABILITY; RENAL CELL CARCINOMA; RESPONSE EVALUATION CRITERIA IN SOLID TUMORS (RECIST); TUMOR SHRINKAGE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896707476     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28493     Document Type: Article

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