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Clinical outcome of patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving front-line chemotherapy according to EGFR and K-RAS mutation status.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Jul 2010
Kalikaki Aristea, Koutsopoulos Anastasios, Hatzidaki Dora, Trypaki Maria, Kontopodis Emmanouel, Stathopoulos Efstathios, Mavroudis Dimitris, Georgoulias Vassilis, Voutsina Alexandra
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BACKGROUND: Somatic mutations in EGFR and K-RAS may predict for sensitivity and resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Whether EGFR and K-RAS mutations could also predict clinical outcome of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients following front-line chemotherapy has not yet b...
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