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[Ceritinib in the treatment of an adult patient with advanced neuroblastoma positive to the somatic activating mutation of ALK F1174L.]
Recenti progressi in medicina - 1 Dec 2020
Soto Parra Hector Josè, Noto Laura, Aiello Marco Maria
Abstract excerpt
The ALK gene (anaplastic lymphoma kinase) encodes a highly conserved tyrosine kinase receptor whose physiological function has not yet been fully established; in particular the fusion of ALK (mainly EML4-ALK) is the gene alteration that most frequently involves 3-7% of all non-small cell lung cancers. Neuroblastoma in adults (NB) is a rare tumor that can present somatic activating mutations in the ALK gene in...
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