Melanoma biology and new targeted therapy.

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Published in Nature on February 22, 2007

Authors

Vanessa Gray-Schopfer1, Claudia Wellbrock, Richard Marais

Author Affiliations

1: The Institute of Cancer Research, Signal Transduction Team, Cancer Research UK Centre of Cell and Molecular Biology, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, UK.

Associated clinical trials:

Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Vemurafenib in Combination With Cobimetinib (Continuous and Intermittent) in BRAFV600-mutation Positive Patients With Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic Melanoma | NCT02583516

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