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Whole-genome sequencing reveals complex mechanisms of intrinsic resistance to BRAF inhibition.
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology - 1 May 2014
Turajlic S, Furney S J, Stamp G, Rana S, Ricken G, Oduko Y, Saturno G, Springer C, Hayes A, Gore M, Larkin J, Marais R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: BRAF is mutated in ∼42% of human melanomas (COSMIC. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/cosmic/) and pharmacological BRAF inhibitors such as vemurafenib and dabrafenib achieve dramatic responses in patients whose tumours harbour BRAF(V600) mutations. Objective responses occur in ∼50% of patients and disease stabilisation in a further ∼30%, but ∼20% of patients present primary or innate resistance and...
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