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BRAF V600E-Mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Practical Management in the Post-BREAKWATER Era.
Journal of gastrointestinal cancer - 31 Aug 2026
Sagawa Tamotsu, Nagashima Hiroyuki, Fujikawa Koshi
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: BRAF V600E-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is a biologically distinct subtype characterized by right-sided predominance, frequent overlap with serrated-pathway biology, and historically poor outcomes with conventional chemotherapy. Therapeutic progress has been driven by the recognition that BRAF inhibition alone is inadequate in colorectal cancer because adaptive epidermal growth factor...
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- Humans
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
- Mutation
- Cetuximab
