Tissue engineering's green shoots of disruptive innovation.
Tissue engineering's green shoots of disruptive innovation.
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组织工程颠覆性创新的萌芽。
DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60533-x
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2014
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Birchall MA
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Birchall MA
The reported adverse events are similar to known safety data for sorafenib. Adverse events led to dose reductions in 64% and withdrawal from the study in 19% of patients. Although Brose and colleagues did not report rare serious adverse events (< 2%) or all-grade adverse events occurring at a frequency below 10%, clinicians should be aware of the class effects of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-targeted multikinase inhibitors, including sorafenib, that result in rare serious toxicities such as bleeding, thromboembolism, bowel perforation, and left ventricle dysfunction. Close monitoring, early recognition, and management of adverse events are therefore essential when patients are being treated with sorafenib. For the tumour genotype data that were available in 61% of patients in this trial, the frequency of BRAF mutation (46%) was lower and that of RAS mutation (18%) higher in papillary thyroid carcinoma than in reported phase 2 trials of sorafenib. Neither BRAF nor RAS mutations predicted a response to sorafenib. Although serial novel imaging and tumour biopsy correlative studies done in patients enrolled in our phase 2 trial showed that sorafenib inhibited BRAF and vascular endothelial growth factor pathways in thyroid tumours, 8 which pathway is more important for the efficacy of sorafenib remains unclear.The results of Brose and colleagues’ trial1 establish a new standard of care for progressive radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer, which is an extraordinary achievement in the development of effective therapies. To make continued progress, we need to discover treatments with better effectiveness and lower toxicity. Future research efforts need to answer several key questions—timing of treatment initiation, optimum dose and schedule, superiority of one multikinase inhibitor over another or BRAF inhibitors over vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitors, mechanisms of action,