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Predicting cetuximab accumulation in KRAS wild-type and KRAS mutant colorectal cancer using 64Cu-labeled cetuximab positron emission tomography.
Cancer science - 1 Mar 2012
Achmad Arifudin, Hanaoka Hirofumi, Yoshioka Hiroki, Yamamoto Shinji, Tominaga Hideyuki, Araki Takuya, Ohshima Yasuhiro, Oriuchi Noboru, Endo Keigo
Abstract excerpt
Overexpression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is common in colorectal cancer. However, cetuximab as an EGFR-targeting drug is useful only for a subset of patients and currently no single predictor other than V-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutation status has been established. In the present study, we investigated cetuximab accumulation in colorectal tumors and major organs...
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