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New Targeted Drug Class Making Waves in Advanced Thyroid Cancer
New Targeted Drug Class Making Waves in Thyroid Cancer
B Jancin
20080924
2008 Oct 24
Elsevier Global Medical News
New Targeted Drug Class Making Waves in Advanced Thyroid Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Oct 24, B Jancin
CHICAGO (EGMN) - Nothing less than a revolution in the management of refractory thyroid cancer is close at hand in the form of oral small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, according to speakers at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association."There's not a question in my mind that this is going to be a very important therapeutic intervention," said Dr. Samuel A. Wells Jr., professor of surgery at Washington University, St. Louis. "This...