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Assessing the efficacy of targeting the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway in endometrial cancer.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 May 2014
Bradford Leslie S, Rauh-Hain Alejandro, Clark Rachel M, Groeneweg Jolijn W, Zhang Ling, Borger Darrell, Zukerberg Lawrence R, Growdon Whitfield B, Foster Rosemary, Rueda Bo R
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OBJECTIVE: Alterations in the PI3K pathway are prevalent in endometrial cancer due to PIK3CA mutation and loss of PTEN. We investigated the anti-tumor activity of the PI3K inhibitor NVP BKM-120 (BKM) as a single agent and in combination with standard cytotoxic chemotherapy in a human primary endometrial xenograft model. METHODS: NOD/SCID mice bearing xenografts of primary human tumors with and without PIK3CA gene...
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