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New strategies in pleural mesothelioma: BAP1 and NF2 as novel targets for therapeutic development and risk assessment.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Sept 2012
Ladanyi Marc, Zauderer Marjorie G, Krug Lee M, Ito Tatsuo, McMillan Robert, Bott Matthew, Giancotti Filippo
Abstract excerpt
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a highly lethal cancer with limited therapeutic options. Recent work has focused on the frequent somatic inactivation of two tumor suppressor genes in MPM-NF2 (Neurofibromatosis type 2) and the recently identified BAP1 (BRCA associated protein 1). In addition, germline mutations in BAP1 have been identified that define a new familial cancer syndrome, which includes MPM,...
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