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Local ablative therapy of oligoprogressive disease prolongs disease control by tyrosine kinase inhibitors in oncogene-addicted non-small-cell lung cancer.
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - 1 Dec 2012
Weickhardt Andrew J, Scheier Benjamin, Burke Joseph Malachy, Gan Gregory, Lu Xian, Bunn Paul A, Aisner Dara L, Gaspar Laurie E, Kavanagh Brian D, Doebele Robert C, Camidge D Ross
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INTRODUCTION: Many patients with oncogene-driven non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors experience limited sites of disease progression. This study investigated retrospectively the benefits of local ablative therapy (LAT) to central nervous system (CNS) and/or limited systemic disease progression and continuation of crizotinib or erlotinib in patients with metastatic ALK gene...
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