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ALKoma: A Cancer Subtype with a Shared Target
22 May 2012
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Abstract Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a receptor-type protein tyrosine kinase that is currently the focus of much attention in oncology. ALK is rendered oncogenic as a result of its fusion to NPM1 in anaplastic large cell lymphoma, to TPM3 or TPM4 in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, to EML4 in non–small cell lung carcinoma, and to VCL in renal medullary carcinoma. It is also activated as a result of...
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