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TGFα and amphiregulin paracrine network promotes resistance to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer cells.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Dec 2014
Hobor Sebastijan, Van Emburgh Beth O, Crowley Emily, Misale Sandra, Di Nicolantonio Federica, Bardelli Alberto
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PURPOSE: Targeted inhibition of EGFR with the mAbs cetuximab or panitumumab is a valuable treatment for RAS wild-type colorectal cancers. The efficacy of EGFR blockade is limited by the emergence of acquired resistance often attributed to secondary KRAS mutations. Remarkably, tumor biopsies from resistant patients show that only a fraction of the resilient cells carry KRAS mutations. We hypothesized that a...
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