Specificity of vascular endothelial growth factor treatment for radiation necrosis.

Radiother Oncol

Department of Radiology, Washington University, Saint Louis, United States; The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University, Saint Louis, United States. Electronic address:

Published: November 2015

Recently, radiation induced necrosis in the brain has been treated using bevacizumab, an anti-VEGF antibody. We validated the VEGF specificity by comparing the therapeutic efficacy of anti-VEGF with non-specific isotype control antibody. Additionally, we found that VEGF over-expression and RN developed simultaneously, which precludes preventative anti-VEGF treatment.

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