| Literature DB >> 19216840 |
C Lance Cowey1, W Kimryn Rathmell.
Abstract
The therapeutic landscape for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has changed drastically over the past several years with the emergence of molecularly targeted therapies. With previous prognostic and predictive tools based on studies of patients treated with cytokine therapies, confirmation of these prior methods and discovery of new markers in this new era of targeted therapy are of great importance. Alteration of the von Hippel-Lindau gene (VHL) by mutation, loss of heterozygosity, and promoter methylation has been found to be important to RCC pathogenesis. In this review, we discuss the potential role of VHL mutation as a prognostic and predictive marker for RCC.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19216840 PMCID: PMC2873025 DOI: 10.1007/s11912-009-0015-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Oncol Rep ISSN: 1523-3790 Impact factor: 5.075