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Drugging the bad "AKT-TOR" to overcome TKI-resistant lung cancer.
Cancer cell - 1 Jul 2007
Settleman Jeffrey, Kurie Jonathan M
Abstract excerpt
EGFR kinase inhibitors constitute an important class of lung cancer treatments. While they produce dramatic responses in a subset of patients-primarily those with activating EGFR mutations-remissions are typically limited to several months due to acquired drug resistance, frequently associated with the secondary T790M mutation in EGFR. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Li et al. report that an irreversible EGFR...
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