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Scott Kopetz, MD, on Colorectal Cancer: Results of the SWOG 1406 Trial

2017 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

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Scott Kopetz, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses study findings on irinotecan and cetuximab with or without vemurafenib in BRAF-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (Abstract 520).



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