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Personalized medicine in gastric cancer: Where are we and where are we going?
World journal of gastroenterology - 21 Jan 2016
Jácome Alexandre A, Coutinho Anelisa K, Lima Enaldo M, Andrade Aline C, Dos Santos José Sebastião
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Despite improvements in adjuvant therapies for gastric cancer in recent years, the disease is characterized by high recurrence rates and a dismal prognosis. The major improvement in the treatment of recurrent or metastatic gastric cancer in recent years has been the incorporation of trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) heterodimerization, after the...
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