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Nature Reviews Cancer 9, 770–771 (1 November 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrc2754

Therapy: Swings and roundabouts

Nicola McCarthy

Children with neurofibromatosis type 1 are heterozygous for NF1 and have a substantially increased risk of developing an aggressive myeloproliferative disorder (MPD): juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML). Using mouse models, Jennifer Lauchle, Kevin Shannon and colleagues have identified the stages of this disease that might be amenable to treatment with drugs that target the RAF–MEK–ERK signalling pathway.