Belzutifan for Renal Cell Carcinoma in von Hippel–Lindau Disease
The cause of von Hippel–Lindau disease is excess activity of the HIF-2α pathway. A total of 61 patients with renal cell carcinoma and other proliferative manifestations of the hypoxia-induced signaling pathway received belzutifan, which inhibits the HIF-2α pathway. Nearly half the patients with rena...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The New England journal of medicine 2021-11, Vol.385 (22), p.2036-2046 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The cause of von Hippel–Lindau disease is excess activity of the HIF-2α pathway. A total of 61 patients with renal cell carcinoma and other proliferative manifestations of the hypoxia-induced signaling pathway received belzutifan, which inhibits the HIF-2α pathway. Nearly half the patients with renal cell carcinoma had a response to treatment, and 98% had disease control. |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJMoa2103425 |