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Vemurafenib in patients with BRAF V600E mutation-positive advanced melanoma.
Clinical therapeutics - 1 Jul 2012
Ravnan Marcus C, Matalka Mazen S
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BACKGROUND: Vemurafenib is an oral, small-molecule kinase inhibitor that selectively targets activated BRAF V600E and has been approved for the treatment of advanced BRAF mutation-positive melanoma. OBJECTIVE: This article reviews the clinical pharmacology, efficacy, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of vemurafenib and in addition outlines proposed mechanisms of vemurafenib resistance. METHODS: A literature...
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