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Does anti-EGFR therapy improve outcome in advanced colorectal cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Cancer treatment reviews - 1 Oct 2012
Vale Claire L, Tierney Jayne F, Fisher David, Adams Richard A, Kaplan Richard, Maughan Timothy S, Parmar Mahesh K B, Meade Angela M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies (MAb) in patients with advanced colorectal cancer (aCRC) have reported conflicting results. METHODS: A systematic review of RCTs comparing standard treatments±anti-EGFR MAbs was conducted. Hazard ratios (HR) for progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were derived for patients with wild-type (WT) and mutant KRAS....
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