Cancer Institute A national cancer institute
designated cancer center

Daniel Chang

Publication Details

  • Pharmacologically increased tumor hypoxia can be measured by 18F-Fluoroazomycin arabinoside positron emission tomography and enhances tumor response to hypoxic cytotoxin PR-104.

    Cairns RA, Bennewith KL, Graves EE, Giaccia AJ, Chang DT, Denko NC. Clin Cancer Res. 2009; 15 (23): 7170-4

    Solid tumors contain microenvironmental regions of hypoxia that present a barrier to traditional radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and this work describes a novel approach to circumvent hypoxia. We propose to overcome hypoxia by augmenting the effectiveness of drugs that are designed to specifically kill hypoxic tumor cells.

    PubMedID: 19920111

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