Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
Pak J Pharm Sci, 2014 Jan;27(1):203-8.
PMID: 24374450

Abstract

Cancer is among most important causes of death in recent decades. Whoever the renal cell carcinoma incidence is low but it seems it is more complicated than the other cancers in terms of pathophysiology and treatments. The purpose of this work is to provide an overview and also deeper insight to renal cell carcinoma and the steps which have been taken to reach more specific treatment and target therapy, in this type of cancer by developing most effective agents such as Sorafenib. To achieve this goal hundreds of research paper and published work has been overviewed and due to limitation of space in a paper just focus in most important points on renal cell carcinoma, treatment of RCC and clinical development of Sorafenib. The information presented this paper shows the advanced of human knowledge to provide more efficient drug in treatment of some complicated cancer such as RCC in promising much better future to fight killing disease.

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