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Therapeutic targeting of anaplastic lymphoma kinase in lung cancer: a paradigm for precision cancer medicine.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 May 2015
Katayama Ryohei, Lovly Christine M, Shaw Alice T
Abstract excerpt
The anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) receptor tyrosine kinase was initially discovered as a component of the fusion protein nucleophosmin (NPM)-ALK in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL). Genomic alterations in ALK, including rearrangements, point mutations, and genomic amplification, have now been identified in several malignancies, including lymphoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), neuroblastoma,...
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