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Use of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Treatment of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.
Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans les recherches sur le cancer - 1 Jan 2015
Dadu Ramona, Hu Mimi N, Grubbs Elizabeth G, Gagel Robert F
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Two independent events--the identification of activating mutations of the RET proto-oncogene, a receptor tyrosine kinase, in medullary thyroid carcinoma, and the recognition that small organic molecules could bind to and inhibit phosphorylation of signaling molecules, thereby inactivating the pathway-led to the recognition that kinase inhibitors could be used to treat medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). The...
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