Beyond BRAF: Where next for melanoma therapy?

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 217-226

  Fedorenko, I V ^a   Gibney, G T ^a   Sondak, V K ^a   Smalley, K S M ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond BRAF; Melanoma; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; B RAF KINASE INHIBITOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NRAS PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; ONCOGENE N RAS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR REGRESSION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84921916400     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.476     Document Type: Short Survey

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