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Comparative analyses of overall survival in patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive and matched wild-type advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer.
Cancer - 15 Jul 2012
Lee June Koo, Park Heae Surng, Kim Dong-Wan, Kulig Kimary, Kim Tae Min, Lee Se-Hoon, Jeon Yoon-Kyung, Chung Doo Hyun, Heo Dae Seog, Kim Woo-Ho, Bang Yung-Jue
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to investigate the overall survival (OS) of patients with advanced ALK-positive nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were managed in the pre-ALK inhibitor era and to compare their survival with that of a matched case cohort of ALK wild-type (WT) patients. METHODS: Data from 1166 patients who had stage IIIB/IV NSCLC with nonsquamous histology were collected from the NSCLC...
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