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MD Anderson research: combination therapies for BRAF V600E mutations, cancer biomarkers in extracellular vesicles, and strategies for overcoming treatment resistance in lung cancer and AML

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MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers have identified recent developments in effective combination therapies for patients with BRAF V600E mutations, an approach to identify cancer biomarkers in extracellular vesicles, therapeutic strategies for improving treatment responses in non-small cell lung cancer, and a novel combination therapy to overcome treatment resistance in a subset of patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

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