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Strategies for overcoming EGFR resistance in the treatment of advanced-stage NSCLC.
Current treatment options in oncology - 1 Dec 2012
Lovly Christine M, Horn Leora
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OPINION STATEMENT: Patients whose tumors harbor somatic-activating mutations within the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene define a clinically distinct molecular cohort of lung cancers with increased sensitivity to the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), including the "first-generation" reversible inhibitors, erlotinib and gefitinib, and the "second-generation" irreversible inhibitors, afatinib and...
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