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Epidermal growth factor receptor kinase domain mutations are rare in salivary gland carcinomas.
British journal of cancer - 24 Feb 2009
Dahse R, Driemel O, Schwarz S, Dahse J, Kromeyer-Hauschild K, Berndt A, Kosmehl H
Abstract excerpt
Activating mutations within the epidermal growth factor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase domain identify non-small cell lung cancer patients with improved clinical response to tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy. Recently, we identified two EGFR mutations in a cohort of 25 salivary gland carcinomas (SGCs) by screening the tumour samples for the both most common hotspot mutations in exons 19 and 21 by allele-specific PCR....
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