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Molecular Profiling Reveals Limited Targetable Biomarkers in Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Cervix.
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2020 , Article)
Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix (NEC) is a rare and highly aggressive cervical malignancy. Given that no targeted therapy has been approved specifically to NEC, we investigated the presence of novel, potentially ...
Molecular characterization of cancers with NTRK gene fusions
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Springer Nature
, 2019 , Article)
Targeted inhibitors of neurotropic tyrosine kinases are highly effective in selected patients with gene fusions involving NTRK1, NTRK2, or NTRK3. These fusions are consistently detected in rare cancer types (e.g., secretory ...
TERT gene fusions characterize a subset of metastatic Leydig cell tumors
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Objective: Metastatic Leydig cell tumors (LCT) are rare, difficult to treat malignancies without known underlying molecular-genetic events. An index case of metastatic LCT showed an LDLR-TERT gene fusion upon routine genetic ...
The Role of Pathology in the Era of Personalized (Precision) Medicine: A Brief Review.
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NLM (Medline)
, 2021 , Article)
This review provides a brief overview of the state-of-the-art molecular pathology approaches emphasizing the increasingly important pathology role in clinical precision cancer medicine. Recent advances in molecular biology ...
Nutm1-rearranged neoplasms: A heterogeneous group of primitive tumors with expanding spectrum of histology and molecular alterations: An updated review
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
Nuclear protein of testis (NUT), a protein product of the NUTM1 gene (located on the long arm of chromosome 15) with highly restricted physiologic expression in post-meiotic spermatids, is the oncogenic driver of a group ...
An Update on the Molecular and Clinical Characteristics of Apocrine Carcinoma of the Breast
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Apocrine carcinoma of the breast is a rare malignancy. According to 2019 WHO classification, apocrine cellular features and a characteristic steroid receptor profile (Estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and androgen receptor ...
Comprehensive analysis of cancers of unknown primary for the biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Background: Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) accounts for approximately 3% of all malignancies. Avoiding immune destruction is a major cancer characteristic and therapies aimed at immune checkpoint blockade are in use for ...
PD-L1 status in breast cancer: Current view and perspectives.
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Elsevier
, 2019 , Article)
Breast cancer was traditionally not considered a particularly immunogenic tumor. However, recent developments have shown that some aggressive triple-negative breast cancers are immunogenic, exhibit a resistance to chemotherapy ...
Acinic cell carcinoma of the breast: A comprehensive review
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
Acinic cell carcinoma of the breast is a rare special subtype of breast cancer in the category of salivary gland-type tumors. It is morphologically similar to acinic cell carcinomas of salivary glands and pancreas and has ...
Trop-2 protein as a therapeutic target: A focused review on Trop-2-based antibody-drug conjugates and their predictive biomarkers
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Association of Basic Medical Sciences of FBIH
, 2022 , Article)
Antibody-drug conjugates represent a new class of highly potent antineoplastic drugs built by attaching a small molecule of an anticancer drug (payload) or another therapeutic agent to an antibody recognizing an epitope ...