Cowey C Lance, Rathmell W Kimryn
Lineberger Cancer Center, 450 West Drive, CB 7295, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Curr Oncol Rep. 2009 Mar;11(2):94-101. doi: 10.1007/s11912-009-0015-5.
The therapeutic landscape for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has changed drastically over the past several years with the emergence of molecularly targeted therapies. With previous prognostic and predictive tools based on studies of patients treated with cytokine therapies, confirmation of these prior methods and discovery of new markers in this new era of targeted therapy are of great importance. Alteration of the von Hippel-Lindau gene (VHL) by mutation, loss of heterozygosity, and promoter methylation has been found to be important to RCC pathogenesis. In this review, we discuss the potential role of VHL mutation as a prognostic and predictive marker for RCC.
在过去几年中,随着分子靶向治疗的出现,肾细胞癌(RCC)的治疗格局发生了巨大变化。鉴于先前基于细胞因子治疗患者研究的预后和预测工具,在这个靶向治疗的新时代,确认这些先前的方法并发现新的标志物至关重要。已发现通过突变、杂合性缺失和启动子甲基化改变冯·希佩尔-林道基因(VHL)对RCC发病机制很重要。在本综述中,我们讨论了VHL突变作为RCC预后和预测标志物的潜在作用。