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Survival in BRAF V600-mutant advanced melanoma treated with vemurafenib.
The New England journal of medicine - 23 Feb 2012
Sosman Jeffrey A, Kim Kevin B, Schuchter Lynn, Gonzalez Rene, Pavlick Anna C, Weber Jeffrey S, McArthur Grant A, Hutson Thomas E, Moschos Stergios J, Flaherty Keith T, Hersey Peter, Kefford Richard, Lawrence Donald, Puzanov Igor, Lewis Karl D, Amaravadi Ravi K, Chmielowski Bartosz, Lawrence H Jeffrey, Shyr Yu, Ye Fei, Li Jiang, Nolop Keith B, Lee Richard J, Joe Andrew K, Ribas Antoni
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BACKGROUND: Approximately 50% of melanomas harbor activating (V600) mutations in the serine-threonine protein kinase B-RAF (BRAF). The oral BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib (PLX4032) frequently produced tumor regressions in patients with BRAF V600-mutant metastatic melanoma in a phase 1 trial and impro...
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