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Distribution of some activating KRAS and BRAF mutations in Slovene patients with colorectal cancer.
Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) - 1 Dec 2011
Ličar Alenka, Cerkovnik Petra, Novaković Srdjan
Abstract excerpt
Numerous clinical studies have shown that anti-EGFR therapies are effective only in a subset of patients with colorectal cancer. Even though mutations in the KRAS gene have been confirmed as negative predictors of the response to EGFR-targeted therapies, not all KRAS wild-type (wt-KRAS) patients will respond to treatment. Recent studies have demonstrated that additionally wild-type BRAF (wt-BRAF) genotype is...
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