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Molecular epidemiology of epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in lung cancers in Indian population.
Indian journal of cancer - 1 Jan 2000
Mehta J
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BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related mortality world-wide and amongst males in India. The discovery of tyrosine kinase inhibitors holds a ray of hope for a subset of lung cancer patients, which have activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. Much of the preliminary data on frequency of EGFR mutations emanated from Western studies, which reported EGFR mutation rates of...
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