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Drugging the Undruggable Ras — Immunotherapy to the Rescue?
7 Dec 2016
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Metastatic gastrointestinal cancers that express products of mutant KRAS genes have one of the most dismal outcomes of all solid tumors and present an unsolved problem in cancer medicine. An activating point mutation in one of genes encoding Ras was the first somatic point mutation identified in a human cancer, and its discovery established the role of somatic mutations as the common driver of oncogenesis.1,2 The...
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