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Preclinical modeling of combined phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase inhibition with endocrine therapy for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Mar 2011
Sanchez Cesar G, Ma Cynthia X, Crowder Robert J, Guintoli Therese, Phommaly Chanpheng, Gao Feng, Lin Li, Ellis Matthew J
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INTRODUCTION: Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) induces apoptosis when combined with estrogen deprivation in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer. The aims of the present study were to identify effective PI3K pathway inhibitor and endocrine therapy combinations, to evaluate the effect of PI3K pathway mutations and estrogen dependency on tumor response, and to determine the relevance of...
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