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Salvatore Siena

Researcher at University of Milan

Publications -  572
Citations -  62791

Salvatore Siena is an academic researcher from University of Milan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Colorectal cancer & Panitumumab. The author has an hindex of 91, co-authored 524 publications receiving 53868 citations. Previous affiliations of Salvatore Siena include Novartis & Indiana University.

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Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Early- and Late-Stage Human Malignancies

Chetan Bettegowda, +69 more
TL;DR: The ability of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to detect tumors in 640 patients with various cancer types was evaluated and suggested that ctDNA is a broadly applicable, sensitive, and specific biomarker that can be used for a variety of clinical and research purposes.
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Wild-type KRAS is required for panitumumab efficacy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

TL;DR: Panitumumab monotherapy efficacy in mCRC is confined to patients with WT KRAS tumors, and KRAS status should be considered in selecting patients withmCRC as candidates for panitumuab mon Therapy.
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Effects of KRAS, BRAF, NRAS, and PIK3CA mutations on the efficacy of cetuximab plus chemotherapy in chemotherapy-refractory metastatic colorectal cancer: a retrospective consortium analysis

TL;DR: This is the largest cohort to date of patients with chemotherapy-refractory metastatic colorectal cancer treated with cetuximab plus chemotherapy in the pre-KRAS selection era and confirmed that, if KRAS is not mutated, assessing BRAF, NRAS, and PIK3CA population response rates confirmed that.