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Novel therapeutic targets in salivary duct carcinoma uncovered by comprehensive molecular profiling.
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Wiley Open Access
, 2019 , Article)
Salivary duct carcinoma (SDC) is a rare, aggressive salivary gland malignancy, which often presents at an advanced stage. A proportion of SDC are characterized by HER2 amplification and/or overexpression of androgen receptor ...
Potential Novel Therapy Targets in Neuroendocrine Carcinomas of the Breast.
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
Neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) of the breast is a rare, special type of breast cancer, reportedly constituting 2% to 5% of all breast cancers. Although breast NEC does not have a specific targeted therapy, several new ...
Targeted immunotherapy with a checkpoint inhibitor in combination with chemotherapy: A new clinical paradigm in the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer.
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Association of Basic Medical Sciences of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
, 2019 , Article Review)
The treatment of several solid and hematologic malignancies with immune checkpoint inhibitors (against PD-1/PD-L1) has dramatically changed the cancer treatment paradigm. However, no checkpoint inhibitors were previously ...
Apocrine Carcinoma
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Springer, Cham
, 2017 , Book chapter)
Carcinoma with apocrine differentiation (invasive apocrine carcinoma) is defined by “WHO Classification
of Tumours of the Breast” as “any invasive carcinoma in which cells show the cytological features of apocrine cells” ...
Biomarkers of Targeted Therapy and Immuno-Oncology in Cancers Metastatic to the Breast.
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2019 , Article)
The breast is a rare site for metastases, and their molecular characteristics have not been studied yet. Intrinsic molecular genetics, cancer characteristics, and breast tissue immune responses in diverse metastases to the ...
Composition of the immune microenvironment differs between carcinomas metastatic to the lungs and primary lung carcinomas.
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
Lungs are among the most common sites for development of both primary and metastatic carcinomas. Tumor cells expression (TC) of PD-L1 is an important predictor of the of response to immune check-point inhibition in NSCLC, ...
Towards Molecular Profiling in Multiple Myeloma: A Literature Review and Early Indications of Its Efficacy for Informing Treatment Strategies.
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MDPI
, 2018 , Article)
Multiple myeloma (MM), the second most common hematologic malignancy, is characterized by the clonal expansion of plasma cells. Despite dramatic improvements in patients' survival over the past decade due to advances in ...
Comprehensive molecular profiling of advanced/metastatic olfactory neuroblastomas.
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Public Library of Science
, 2018 , Article)
Olfactory neuroblastoma (ONB) is a rare, locally aggressive, malignant neoplasm originating in the olfactory epithelium in the nasal vault. The recurrence rate of ONB remains high and there are no specific treatment ...
Immunohistochemistry-Enabled Precision Medicine
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Springer, Cham
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) can be applied to diagnostic aspects of pathologic examination to provide aid in assignment of lineage and histologic type of cancer. Increasingly, however, IHC is widely used to provide prognostic ...
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 ...