Therapy: Lenvatinib and radioiodine-refractory thyroid cancers. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Over the past decade, several multikinase inhibitors have shown considerable effectiveness against metastatic radioiodine-refractory thyroid cancers in early stage clinical trials. On the basis of some remarkable results in a phase III clinical trial, lenvatinib now joins sorafenib as another multikinase inhibitor approved by the FDA for this disease.

publication date

  • March 31, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Phenylurea Compounds
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors
  • Quinolines
  • Thyroid Neoplasms

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4518863

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84929960380

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1038/nrendo.2015.53

PubMed ID

  • 25824678

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 6