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Recent advances in pathway-targeted cancer drug therapies emerging from cancer genome analysis.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Feb 2012
Yauch Robert L, Settleman Jeff
Abstract excerpt
Substantial recent progress has been reported in the context of implementing 'personalized' cancer medicine, informed by tumor genotyping. The recent FDA approvals of crizotinib, an ALK kinase inhibitor that has yielded significant clinical benefit in ALK-translocated lung cancers, and vemurafenib, a BRAF-selective kinase inhibitor that has demonstrated dramatic clinical efficacy in BRAF mutant melanoma patients,...
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