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Selectively Targeting Mutant BRAF in Thyroid Cancer
1 Jan 2010
Abstract excerpt
Salerno et al. (1) in this issue of the Journal present the first preclinical thyroid cancer studies to use a promising category of targeted therapy, drugs that selectively inhibit the mutant BRAF oncoprotein. BRAF has occupied a central role in thyroid cancer pathogenesis since the original identification of BRAF mutations in papillary and anaplastic thyroid cancer (2, 3). Numerous follow-up studies have shown...
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