Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor as a Therapeutic Target in Ewing Sarcoma: Lack of Consistent Upregulation or Recurrent Mutation and a Review of the Clinical Trial Literature

The insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R) has been considered an important therapeutic target in Ewing sarcoma (ES), generating a need to identify the subset of patients most likely to respond to IGF-1R inhibitors. We assessed IGF-1R expression in ES cell lines and patient tumors to underst...

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Main Authors: Alison O'Neill, Nilay Shah, Naamah Zitomersky, Marc Ladanyi, Neerav Shukla, Aykut Üren, David Loeb, Jeffrey Toretsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Sarcoma
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/450478