Erschienen in:
27.02.2018 | Onkologie | editorial
Revival of anti-angiogenic therapies in cancer
News from an old therapeutic concept—part 2
verfasst von:
Andreas Pircher, MD PhD
Erschienen in:
memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology
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Ausgabe 1/2018
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Excerpt
Referring to the last issue presenting state of the art reviews [
1] on the use of anti-angiogenic drugs in colorectal [
2], urological [
3,
4] and breast cancer [
5] as well as in angiosarcomas [
6], the present issue extends the topic to additional angiogenesis-dependent malignancies. Hereby, ovarian cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represent two highly vascularized tumor entities where anti-angiogenic therapies form a robust backbone for the treatment of advanced stage disease mostly in combination with chemotherapy or newer therapeutic therapies. …