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Hallmark: sustaining proliferative signalling

Cancer cells keep telling themselves to divide, by making their own growth signals or jamming the receptors on.

Achieved via receptor mutation/amplification (EGFR, HER2, ALK), downstream activation (KRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA), or autocrine ligand production. The hallmark behind kinase inhibitors, HER2 antibodies, and RAS drugs.

Cancer biology: what this kind of term is about · animated schematic, not to scale
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