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Clinical activity of the mutant-selective EGFR inhibitor AZD9291 in patients with EGFR inhibitor-resistant non-small cell lung cancer.
1 Dec 2014
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The first generation epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) are effective in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR mutations. Unfortunately, disease progression generally occurs after 9 to 14 months of targeted therapy. The substitution of threonine with methionine at amino acid position 790 (T790M), as the second mutation in EGFR, is the most common resistance...
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