Bevacizumab for malignant gliomas: current indications, mechanisms of action and resistance, and markers of response

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 62-77

  Tamura, Ryota ^a   Tanaka, Toshihide ^b   Miyake, Keisuke ^c   Yoshida, Kazunari ^a   Sasaki, Hikaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Glioblastoma; Glioma stem cell; Hypoxia; Immunotherapy

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CEDIRANIB; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; IRINOTECAN; LOMUSTINE; MICRORNA; NEUROPILIN 1; ONARTUZUMAB; PLACEBO; RINDOPEPIMUT; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VANDETANIB; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VATALANIB; VORINOSTAT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTION; TUMOR HYPOXIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CANCER STEM CELL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); GENETICS; GLIOMA; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; BEVACIZUMAB; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 85017132036     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: 1861387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10014-017-0284-x     Document Type: Article

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