Identification of the genes for kidney cancer: opportunity for disease-specific targeted therapeutics. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Recent advances in understanding the kidney cancer gene pathways has provided the foundation for the development of targeted therapeutic approaches for patients with this disease. Kidney cancer is not a single disease; it includes a number of different types of renal cancers, each with different histologic features, a different clinical course, a different response to therapy, and different genes causing the defects. Most of what is known about the genetic basis of kidney cancer has been learned from study of the inherited forms of kidney cancer: von Hippel Lindau (VHL gene), hereditary papillary renal carcinoma (c-Met gene), Birt Hogg DubĂ© (BHD gene), and hereditary leiomyomatosis renal cell cancer (fumarate hydratase gene). These Mendelian single-gene syndromes provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of agents that target the VHL, c-Met, BHD, and fumarate hydratase pathways.

publication date

  • January 15, 2007

Research

keywords

  • Kidney Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33846876103

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1870

PubMed ID

  • 17255292

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 13

issue

  • 2 Pt 2