Tracking Down Response and Resistance to TRK Inhibitors.

Cancer Discov

Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Published: January 2016

Two recent studies validate the LMNA-NTRK1 fusion as an oncogenic driver and therapeutic target of TRK inhibitors. The LMNA-NTRK1 fusion occurs at low frequency across multiple tumor types. The studies highlight the increasing need to develop molecular biomarker-based clinical trials across cancer subtypes.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4709026PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-15-1352DOI Listing

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