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Prevalence and heterogeneity of KRAS, BRAF, and PIK3CA mutations in primary colorectal adenocarcinomas and their corresponding metastases.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Feb 2010
Baldus Stephan E, Schaefer Karl-L, Engers Rainer, Hartleb Dinah, Stoecklein Nikolas H, Gabbert Helmut E
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PURPOSE: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibody therapy is established in patients with wild-type KRAS colorectal carcinoma; however, up to 50% of these patients do not respond to this therapy. To identify the possible causes of this therapy failure, we searched for mutations in different EGFR-dependent signaling proteins and analyzed their distribution patterns in primary tumors and corresponding...
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