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[Biomarkers and targeted therapies in non-small cell lung cancer: present and future treatments].
Revue de pneumologie clinique - 1 Jun 2011
Planchard D, Giroux Leprieur E
Abstract excerpt
Since several years, the perception of lung cancer has considerably evolved. Indeed, we have proceeded from a simple classification based on histology to a molecular dismemberment, with a lot of subtypes of tumors according to there molecular alteration profile. Mutations of the EGFR receptor define so a group of cancers particularly sensitive to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). Gefitinib has shown its...
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