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BRAF inhibitors: experience in thyroid cancer and general review of toxicity.
Hormones & cancer - 1 Feb 2015
Cabanillas M E, Patel A, Danysh B P, Dadu R, Kopetz S, Falchook G
Abstract excerpt
The US Food and Drug Administration-approved BRAF inhibitors, vemurafenib and dabrafenib, have demonstrated superior efficacy in patients with BRAF-mutant melanomas but have limited efficacy in BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer. Little is known at this time regarding BRAF inhibitors in thyroid cancer. Initial reports in patients with progressive, radioactive iodine-refractory BRAF-mutant papillary thyroid cancer...
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