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The long-term survival of a patient with adenosquamous lung carcinoma harboring EGFR-activating mutations who was treated with gefitinib.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2012
Iwanaga Kentaro, Sueoka-Aragane Naoko, Nakamura Tomomi, Mori Daisuke, Kimura Shinya
Abstract excerpt
A 56-year-old woman diagnosed with squamous cell lung carcinoma after a transbronchoscopic examination underwent left upper lobectomy, which revealed a pathological diagnosis of adenosquamous carcinoma containing moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma and bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 19 delE746-A750 mutation was detected in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)...
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