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Visceral fat area is an Independent Predictive Biomarker of Outcome after First-Line Bevacizumab-Based Therapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Gut, 10/22/09

ghiringhelli F et al. – The authors study provides the first evidence that high VFA independently predicts a poorer outcome in patients given first–line bevacizumab–based treatment for MCC. However, this predictive biomarker needs to be validated in a different data set.

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Francois ghiringhelli, 10/22/09

I think that this article strongly support the hypothesis that fat mass is a major factor that determine the clinical activity of antiangiogenic therapies.

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