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The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR / HER-1) gatekeeper mutation T790M is present in European patients with early breast cancer.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Bemanian Vahid, Sauer Torill, Touma Joel, Lindstedt Bjørn Arne, Chen Ying, Ødegård Hilde Presterud, Vetvik Katja Marjaana, Bukholm Ida Rashida, Geisler Jürgen
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The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is one of the major oncogenes identified in a variety of human malignancies including breast cancer (BC). EGFR-mutations have been studied in lung cancer for some years and are established as important markers in guiding therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). In contrast, EGFR-mutations have been reported to be rare if not absent in human BC, although recent...
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