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Clinical responses to vemurafenib in patients with metastatic papillary thyroid cancer harboring BRAF(V600E) mutation.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Oct 2013
Kim Kevin B, Cabanillas Maria E, Lazar Alexander J, Williams Michelle D, Sanders Deborah L, Ilagan Joseph L, Nolop Keith, Lee Richard J, Sherman Steven I
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BACKGROUND: Clinical benefit from cytotoxic chemotherapy for metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is disappointing, and effective therapeutic approaches for these patients are urgently needed. Because kinase-activating mutations in the BRAF proto-oncogene commonly occur in advanced PTC, and inhibition of BRAF(V600E) has shown promising clinical activity in melanoma, BRAF inhibitor therapy may be an...
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