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Targeted therapy for melanoma: a primer.
Surgical oncology clinics of North America - 1 Jan 2011
Davies Michael A, Gershenwald Jeffrey E
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Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Unfortunately, despite recent improvements for some solid tumors, the prevalence and mortality of melanoma continue to increase. The identification of activating mutations in melanoma, combined with a growing appreciation of the different pattern of genetic changes in the anatomically defined melanoma subtypes, has become the focus of a concerted effort to...
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