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Therapeutic approach guided by genetic alteration: use of MTOR inhibitor in renal medullary carcinoma with loss of PTEN expression.
Cancer biology & therapy - 1 Jan 2015
Lipkin Jacob S, Rizvi Syed M, Gatalica Zoran, Sarwani Nabeel E, Holder Sheldon L, Kaag Mathew, Drabick Joseph J, Joshi Monika
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Renal Medullary Cancer (RMC) is a rare and aggressive type of renal cell cancer that presents predominantly in patients with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies, and is typically metastatic at the time of presentation. Although platinum based chemotherapeutic regimens have recently emerged as the best option for producing a clinically significant response as reported in various case series, the response is far from...
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