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Targeting ALK: Precision Medicine Takes on Drug Resistance.
Cancer discovery - 1 Feb 2017
Lin Jessica J, Riely Gregory J, Shaw Alice T
Abstract excerpt
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a validated molecular target in several ALK-rearranged malignancies, including non-small cell lung cancer. However, the clinical benefit of targeting ALK using tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) is almost universally limited by the emergence of drug resistance. Diverse mechanisms of resistance to ALK TKIs have now been discovered, and these basic mechanisms are informing the...
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