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Defining clinically relevant molecular subsets of lung cancer.
Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology - 1 Nov 2006
Pao William
Abstract excerpt
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), gefitinib and erlotinib, induce dramatic responses in certain patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). As such, the drugs provide an unexpected tool to dissect clinically relevant molecular subsets of NSCLC. For example, using mutational profiling of tumor DNA from patients with sensitivity, primary resistance, and secondary...
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