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Germline polymorphisms in patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer receiving first‐line platinum‐gemcitabine chemotherapy
28 Sept 2011
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The authors assessed the impact of germline polymorphisms on clinical outcome in patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who received platinum-gemcitabine (PG) chemotherapy. METHODS: In total, 137 patients with stage IIIB/IV NSCLC were included who received first-line PG chemotherapy (74% of patients received cisplatin, and 26% received carboplatin). Twenty-three germline...
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