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New strategies in head and neck cancer: understanding resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 May 2010
Chen Lucy F, Cohen Ezra E W, Grandis Jennifer R
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The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a validated target in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC). However, despite high expression of EGFR in these cancers, EGFR inhibitor monotherapy has only had modest activity. Potential mechanisms of resistance to EGFR-targeted therapies involve EGFR and Ras mutations, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and activation of alternative and downstream...
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