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Targeting small cell lung cancer harboring PIK3CA mutation with a selective oral PI3K inhibitor PF-4989216.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Feb 2014
Walls Marlena, Baxi Sangita M, Mehta Pramod P, Liu Kevin K-C, Zhu Jinjiang, Estrella Heather, Li Chunze, Zientek Michael, Zong Qing, Smeal Tod, Yin Min-Jean
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Constitutive activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) occurs frequently in many human tumors via either gene mutation in the p110α catalytic subunit of PI3K or functional loss of tumor suppressor PTEN. Patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) have very poor prognosis and survival rates such that an effective targeted therapy is in strong demand for these patients. In this study, we characterized...
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