Adrenocortical Cancer Therapy
Findings from Tohoku University, Department of Pathology advance knowledge in adrenocortical cancer therapy
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 19th, 2009
A report, 'An analysis of potential surrogate markers of target-specific therapy in archival materials of adrenocortical carcinoma,' is newly published data in Endocrine Pathology. According to a study from Miyagi, Japan, "Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare neoplasm but some of the cases are highly malignant. Clinical outcome of the patients with advanced ACC still remained poor or dismal despite recent development of aggressive antitumor therapies."
"Target-specific therapies have been developed in a number of human malignancies and resulted in therapeutic benefits in some cancer patients. However, these therapies are only effective in the cases in which...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-05-19)
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