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Angiogenesis inhibition: the next frontier in multimodal therapy for glioblastoma multiforme

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boxed-textBatchelor TT et al. (2007) AZD2171, a pan-VEGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, normalizes tumor vasculature and alleviates edema in glioblastoma patients. Cancer Cell 11: 83–95

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Sharma, R., Weichselbaum, R. Angiogenesis inhibition: the next frontier in multimodal therapy for glioblastoma multiforme. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 4, 454–455 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncponc0879

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