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The use of vemurafenib in Australian patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma containing the V600 BRAF gene mutation.
Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology - 1 Apr 2014
Brown Michael P, Long Georgina V
Abstract excerpt
Metastatic melanoma remains one of the major causes of death related to skin cancers and has been resistant to traditional anticancer therapies. The clinical development of vemurafenib in the treatment of metastatic melanoma with the V600 mutation of the BRAF gene has provided meaningful improvements in the overall survival and progression-free survival of metastatic melanoma patients. However, significant side...
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