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Clinical detection and categorization of uncommon and concomitant mutations involving BRAF.
BMC cancer - 24 Oct 2015
Zheng Gang, Tseng Li-Hui, Chen Guoli, Haley Lisa, Illei Peter, Gocke Christopher D, Eshleman James R, Lin Ming-Tseh
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BACKGROUND: Selective BRAF inhibitors, vemurafenib and dabrafenib, and the MEK inhibitor, trametinib, have been approved for treatment of metastatic melanomas with a BRAF p.V600E mutation. The clinical significance of non-codon 600 mutations remains unclear, in part, due to variation of kinase activity for different mutants. METHODS: In this study, we categorized BRAF mutations according to the reported mutant...
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