adrug used to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gist)that have not responded to treatment with imatinib mesylate(gleevec). sunitinib is alsoused to treat advanced kidney cancer and is being studiedin the treatment of other types of cancer. it is a type oftyrosine kinase inhibitor, a type of vascular endothelialgrowth factor (vegf) receptor inhibitor, and a type ofangiogenesis inhibitor. also called su011248, su11248, sunitinib malate, and sutent.
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sunitinib (uncountable)
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Sunitinib (marketed as Sutent by Pfizer, and previously known as SU11248) is an oral, small-molecule, multi-targeted receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor that was approved by the FDA for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) on January 26, 2006. Sunitinib was the first cancer drug simultaneously approved for two different indications.