How we isolated the TRK oncogene

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I was very surprised to see in an issue of the NEJM earlier this year that Loxo Oncology had developed a selective TRK inhibitor, larotrectinib, and even more surprised to learn that TRK fusions occur in about 1 percent of all human cancers.

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Mariano Barbacid
AXA-CNIO Professor of Molecular Oncology, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid

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Mariano Barbacid
AXA-CNIO Professor of Molecular Oncology, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid

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