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Successful treatment with erlotinib of severe neutropenia induced by gefitinib in a patient with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Jun 2013
Araya Tomoyuki, Kasahara Kazuo, Demura Yoshiki, Matsuoka Hiroki, Nishitsuji Masaru, Nishi Koichi
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Neutropenia is a rare side effect of gefitinib and was scarcely reported in many large-scale randomized phase III trials using gefitinib monotherapy as first-line treatment. A 77-year-old female was referred to our institution due to abnormal shadow of the right lung, diagnosed by CT scan and bio...
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