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Gene aberrations for precision medicine against lung adenocarcinoma.
Cancer science - 1 Jun 2016
Saito Motonobu, Shiraishi Kouya, Kunitoh Hideo, Takenoshita Seiichi, Yokota Jun, Kohno Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Lung adenocarcinoma (LADC), the most frequent histological type of lung cancer, is often triggered by an aberration in a driver oncogene in tumor cells. Examples of such aberrations are EGFR mutation and ALK fusion. Lung adenocarcinoma harboring such mutations can be treated with anticancer drugs that target the aberrant gene products. Additional oncogene aberrations, including RET, ROS1, and NRG1 fusions,...
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