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Global profiling of EGFR gene mutation, amplification, regulation and tissue protein expression in unknown primary carcinomas: to target or not to target?
Clinical & experimental metastasis - 1 Jan 2007
Dova Leukothea, Pentheroudakis George, Georgiou Ioannis, Malamou-Mitsi Vassiliki, Vartholomatos George, Fountzilas George, Kolaitis Nikolaos, Kitsiou Evangelia, Pavlidis Nicholas
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INTRODUCTION: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signalling contributes to malignant transformation and survival. We studied molecular predictors of benefit from EGFR-modulating therapies in patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Tumours from paraffin-embedded biopsies of 50 patients with CUP were stained for EGFR protein by immunohistochemistry. Polymerase chain reaction...
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