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Autophagy Inhibition Overcomes the Antagonistic Effect Between Gefitinib and Cisplatin in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutant Non--Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cells.
Clinical lung cancer - 1 Sept 2015
Liu Jia-Tao, Li Wen-Cheng, Gao Shuang, Wang Fang, Li Xiao-Qiu, Yu Han-Qing, Fan Lu-Lu, Wei Wei, Wang Hua, Sun Guo-Ping
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BACKGROUND: Four large clinical trials have shown that concurrent administration of an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), such as gefitinib or erlotinib, with chemotherapy agents does not improve overall survival (OS) in unselected patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In the present study, the role of autophagy in the combination of gefitinib and...
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