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Clinical definition of acquired resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors in non-small-cell lung cancer.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 10 Jan 2010
Jackman David, Pao William, Riely Gregory J, Engelman Jeffrey A, Kris Mark G, Jänne Pasi A, Lynch Thomas, Johnson Bruce E, Miller Vincent A
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Ten percent of North American patients with non-small-cell lung cancer have tumors with somatic mutations in the gene for the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Approximately 70% of patients whose lung cancers harbor somatic mutations in exons encoding the tyrosine kinase domain of EGFR experience significant tumor regressions when treated with the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) gefitinib or...
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