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Assessment of V600E mutation of BRAF gene and rate of cell proliferation using fine-needle aspirates from metastatic melanomas.
Anticancer research - 1 Sept 2010
Sviatoha Vitali, Tani Edneia, Ghaderi Mehran, Kleina Regina, Skoog Lambert
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BACKGROUND: metastatic melanomas are incurable by systemic treatment and it is therefore of the highest concern to develop new therapeutic regimens. RAF kinases play a key role in the RAS-RAF-MAPK signalling pathway which mediates cellular response to growth signals. An inhibitor of the RAS-RAF-MAPK cascade, sorafenib, has shown promising therapeutic results in treatment of several types of metastatic tumours. It...
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