Matching wits with melanoma brain metastases: from biology to therapeutics.
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چکیده
Melanoma brain metastases (MBM) present a significant clinical challenge. Molecular profiling of MBM is useful to identify molecular pathways, such as the PI3K pathway, that are specifically and differentially altered in MBM. Therapeutic studies should recruit patients with MBM and prospective tissue collection will lay the foundation for further advances.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
دوره 20 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014