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Kinase-impaired BRAF mutations in lung cancer confer sensitivity to dasatinib.
Science translational medicine - 30 May 2012
Sen Banibrata, Peng Shaohua, Tang Ximing, Erickson Heidi S, Galindo Hector, Mazumdar Tuhina, Stewart David J, Wistuba Ignacio, Johnson Faye M
Abstract excerpt
During a clinical trial of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor dasatinib for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), one patient responded dramatically and remains cancer-free 4 years later. A comprehensive analysis of his tumor revealed a previously undescribed, kinase-inactivating BRAF mutation ((Y472C)BRAF); no inactivating BRAF mutations were found in the nonresponding tumors taken from other patients. Cells...
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