Thyroid cancer

ME Cabanillas, DG McFadden, C Durante - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Thyroid cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women in the USA, and an estimated over
62 000 new cases occurred in men and women in 2015. The incidence continues to rise …

[HTML][HTML] Lenvatinib: Role in thyroid cancer and other solid tumors

ME Cabanillas, MA Habra - Cancer treatment reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite recent breakthroughs in treatment of advanced thyroid cancers, prognoses remain
poor. Treatment of advanced, progressive disease remains challenging, with limited …

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: treatment in the age of molecular targeted therapy

ME Cabanillas, M Zafereo, GB Gunn… - Journal of oncology …, 2016 - ascopubs.org
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers in humans
and accounts for one to two cases per million persons annually. The rarity of this malignancy …

Evolving molecularly targeted therapies for advanced-stage thyroid cancers

KC Bible, M Ryder - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2016 - nature.com
Increased understanding of disease-specific molecular targets of therapy has led to the
regulatory approval of two drugs (vandetanib and cabozantinib) for the treatment of …

Population pharmacokinetic analysis of lenvatinib in healthy subjects and patients with cancer

A Gupta, B Jarzab, J Capdevila… - British journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Lenvatinib was recently approved for the treatment of radioiodine‐refractory
differentiated thyroid cancer (RR‐DTC). Here, we characterized the pharmacokinetic (PK) …

Management of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: the fruits from the ATC research consortium of Japan

I Sugitani, N Onoda, K Ito, S Suzuki - Journal of Nippon Medical …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) accounts for only 1 to 2% of all thyroid carcinomas, but it
is one of the most lethal neoplasms in humans. To obtain further insights into this” orphan …

Lenvatinib: a review in refractory thyroid cancer

JE Frampton - Targeted oncology, 2016 - Springer
Lenvatinib (Lenvima®) is an oral, multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) of vascular
endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptors 1, 2 and 3, fibroblast growth factor receptors 1, 2 …

Targeted therapies in thyroid cancer: an extensive review of the literature

A Bikas, S Vachhani, K Jensen, V Vasko… - Expert Review of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Patients with progressive, metastatic, RAI-refractory differentiated thyroid
cancer (DTC), as well as patients with advanced medullary (MTC) and anaplastic thyroid …

Salvage lenvatinib therapy in metastatic anaplastic thyroid cancer

NM Iñiguez-Ariza, MM Ryder, CR Hilger, KC Bible - Thyroid, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Background: Historical anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) outcomes have been terrible, with a
median survival of only five months and< 20% one-year survival. Improved outcomes are …

The treatment landscape in thyroid cancer: a focus on cabozantinib

SP Weitzman, ME Cabanillas - Cancer management and research, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Although patients with thyroid cancer generally fare well, there is a subset for which this is
not necessarily true. Progress in understanding the molecular aberrations in thyroid cancer …