Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Concentration as a Predictive Marker: Ready for Primetime?
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Vascular endothelial growth factor concentration as a predictive marker: ready for primetime?
To the Editors: The article by Hanrahan et al. in the May issue of Clinical Cancer Research (1) describes the clinical utility of baseline vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to identify subjects who may benefit from treatment with vandetanib (a VEGF receptor/epidermal growth factor receptor/RET inhibitor; ref. 1). However, important issues, such as preanalytic, analytic, and postanalytic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cancer Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1078-0432,1557-3265
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-09-1476