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Rational therapeutic intervention in cancer: kinases as drug targets.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Feb 2002
Sawyers Charles L
Abstract excerpt
Landmark clinical studies of new drugs developed to target specific forms of cancer were reported in 2001. Herceptin, a monoclonal antibody against the Her2/neu receptor tyrosine kinase, prolonged the survival of women with Her-2/neu positive metastatic breast cancer, when combined with chemotherapy. STI-571, a small molecule inhibitor of the Bcr-Abl, c-kit and platelet derived growth factor receptor tyrosine...
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