Reducing the initial dose of sorafenib was shown to have some benefits — such as reduced pill burden, lower costs, and decreased AE-related discontinuation rates — and OS was noninferior compared with the standard dose in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
[Oncotargets and Therapy] This research evaluates the comparative efficacy and safety of axitinib and sorafenib for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
Liver tumor cells do not respond to sorafenib if they have a less differentiated phenotype, known as the mesenchymal type, and express CD44, according to a new study.
When tumor stops responding to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the anti-cancer drug sorafenib (Nexavar) has been expanded to include late-stage differentiated thyroid cancer, the most common type of thyroid cancer.
The kidney and liver cancer drug sorafenib holds metastatic thyroid cancer at bay nearly twice as long as placebo, according to the results of the randomized phase III trial known as DECISION.
Sorafenib improves survival in patients whose cancer is resistant to radioactive iodine treatment.
An increased risk of coronary artery stenosis in cancer survivors may be a long-term posttreatment effect of chest radiotherapy.
