Towards the goal of personalized medicine in gastric cancer - Time to move beyond HER2 inhibition. Part I: Targeting receptor tyrosine kinase gene amplification

Discovery Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 85, 2013, Pages 333-341

  Lee, Jeeyun ^a   Ou, Sai Hong I ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ERBB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; STOMACH TUMOR;

GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84886295592     PISSN: 15396509     EISSN: 19447930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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