[Recently, sunitinib demonstrating efficacy in pancreatic islet cell carcinomas has opened a new avenue for the treatment of NETs, and further trials shall be considered in NET types such as carcinoids, poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas, and several other endocrine tumors that depend on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/VEGF receptor for angiogenesis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE