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BRAFV600E immunopositive melanomas show low frequency of heterogeneity and association with epithelioid tumor cells: a STROBE-compliant article.
Medicine - 1 Dec 2014
Verlinden Ivana, van den Hurk Karin, Clarijs Ruud, Willig Arjan P, Stallinga Cecile M H A, Roemen Guido M J M, van den Oord Joost J, Zur Hausen Axel, Speel Ernst-Jan M, Winnepenninckx Véronique J L
Abstract excerpt
Treatment of BRAFV600E-mutant melanoma by small molecule inhibitors that target BRAFV600E or MEK kinases is increasingly used in clinical practice and significantly improve patient outcome. However, patients eventually become resistant and therapeutic improvement is required. Molecular diversity within individual tumors (intratumor heterogeneity) and between tumors within a single patient (intrapatient...
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