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Genetic abnormalities of the EGFR pathway in African American Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 20 Nov 2009
Leidner Rom S, Fu Pingfu, Clifford Bradley, Hamdan Ayad, Jin Cheng, Eisenberg Rosana, Boggon Titus J, Skokan Margaret, Franklin Wilbur A, Cappuzzo Federico, Hirsch Fred R, Varella-Garcia Marileila, Halmos Balazs
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PURPOSE: Previous studies in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have demonstrated a wide variation in responsiveness to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) -targeting agents and in genetic aberrancies of the EGFR pathway according to ethnic background, most notably a higher frequency of activ...
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