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Chloe Evelyn Atreya, MD, PhD, and Axel Grothey, MD, on Efficacy of Targeted Treatments in BRAF-Mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Chloe Evelyn Atreya, MD, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, talks with Axel Grothey, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, about new data on trametinib, dabrafenib, and panitumumab in patients with the BRAF V600E mutation and vemurafenib plus irinotecan and cetuximab in BRAF-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer (Abstracts 103 and 3511).



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