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Articles about C-Kit and melanoma.

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- February 8, 2011 at 4:19 am
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JerryfromFauq
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http://www.peerview-institute.org/news/content.nsf/PaperFrameSet?OpenForm&pp=1&id=CCCB6F92F259755E852575D9000EC6DF&refid=3483&specid=999&newsid=852576140048867C8525781E003327AD&locref=ntkwatch&u=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=21244632

C-kit and Melanoma articles:

http://www.peerview-institute.org/news/content.nsf/PaperFrameSet?OpenForm&pp=1&id=CCCB6F92F259755E852575D9000EC6DF&refid=3483&specid=999&newsid=852576140048867C8525781E003327AD&locref=ntkwatch&u=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=21244632

C-kit and Melanoma articles:

Many interesting articles here. I started the Imatinib in March 2008 and have been essentially stable for almost three years now. I have a friend whose tumors went away on the Dasatinib. In: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831053/?tool=pubmed
A very detailed article. One interesting item stated is: "While other KIT inhibitors such as dasatinib appear to have better penetration of the blood-brain barrier (Porkka et al., 2008), their efficacy of treating manifest disease in the brain needs to be demonstrated."

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- - February 14, 2011 at 9:09 am
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  moi
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  Thanks Jerry, congratulations on your stable status. Lots of hope where personalized medicine is concerned.
- - February 14, 2011 at 9:09 am
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  moi
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  Thanks Jerry, congratulations on your stable status. Lots of hope where personalized medicine is concerned.
- - February 14, 2011 at 12:22 pm
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  jim Breitfeller
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  Thanks Jerry.
  
  I added the paper to my library.
- - February 14, 2011 at 12:22 pm
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  jim Breitfeller
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  Thanks Jerry.
  
  I added the paper to my library.

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