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ArticleTherapeutic advances in urology2012

Experience with sorafenib in the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Giuseppe Procopio, Elena Verzoni, Isabella Testa, Nicola Nicolai, Roberto Salvioni, Filippo Debraud

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Article in Therapeutic advances in urology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Giuseppe ProcopioDepartment of Medical Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Via G. Venezian, Milan 1-20133, Italy.
Elena Verzoni
Isabella Testa
Nicola Nicolai
Roberto Salvioni
Filippo Debraud

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The molecular-targeted agent sorafenib is the first anticancer agent able to slow the progression of advanced/metastatic renal cell carcinoma, a tumor that was formerly refractory to conventional therapy. Experience from everyday clinical practice and investigations exploring the suitability of this agent for patients with harmful pathological conditions has extended the use of sorafenib to other settings of renal cell carcinoma and to particular risk populations. The aim of this review is to provide evidence on the most effective and safe use of sorafenib. The review pays particular attention to patients who have several comorbidities, such as impaired renal and cardiac function, and older patients whose frailty due to impaired organ function necessitates the most careful administration of targeted antineoplastic agents.

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First-line treatmentolder peoplerenal cell carcinomasorafenibtargeted therapies

Identifiers

PMID23205057
PMCPMC3491759

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