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Phase I study of irinotecan and gefitinib in patients with gefitinib treatment failure for non-small cell lung cancer.
British journal of cancer - 11 Oct 2011
Horiike A, Kudo K, Miyauchi E, Ohyanagi F, Kasahara K, Horai T, Nishio M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Currently, no effective treatments exist for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after failure of gefitinib therapy. Pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that gefitinib-resistant NSCLC cells are more sensitive to irinotecan than parental cells, and that combined administration of irinotecan and gefitinib has a synergistic additive effect. We conducted a phase I study to evaluate the combination of...
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