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Comment
. 2021 Jul;11(7):1620-1622.
doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-21-0378.

Triple Therapy to Outwit the BRAF Oncogene

Chao Zhang  1 , Gideon Bollag  1
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Triple Therapy to Outwit the BRAF Oncogene

Chao Zhang et al. Cancer Discov. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

BRAF-mutant cancers have been knocked down by BRAF and MEK inhibitor combos, yet the cancers always find a way to get back up. Adding a third medicine, namely, a dimer-selective BRAF inhibitor, can knock down longer and better.See related article by Adamopoulos et al., p. 1716.

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