| Literature DB >> 26380650 |
Mohamed Bouattour1, Audrey Payancé1, Johanna Wassermann1.
Abstract
Many years after therapeutic wilderness, sorafenib finally showed a clinical benefit in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. After the primary general enthusiasm worldwide, some disappointments emerged particularly since no new treatment could exceed or at least match sorafenib in this setting. Without these new drugs, research focused on optimizing care of patients treated with sorafenib. One challenging research approach deals with identifying prognostic and predictive biomarkers of sorafenib in this population. The task still seems difficult; however appropriate investigations could resolve this dilemma, as observed for some malignancies where other drugs were used.Entities:
Keywords: Antiangiogenic therapies; Functional imaging; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Predictive biomarkers; Prognosis biomarkers; Sorafenib
Year: 2015 PMID: 26380650 PMCID: PMC4568486 DOI: 10.4254/wjh.v7.i20.2245
Source DB: PubMed Journal: World J Hepatol