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EGFR: The Paradigm of an Oncogene-Driven Lung Cancer.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 May 2015
Riely Gregory J, Yu Helena A
Abstract excerpt
Somatic, activating mutations in EGFR identify a significant minority of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Although these mutations are associated with an approximately 70% response rate to some EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (gefitinib, erlotinib, and afatinib), patients develop resistance (i.e., "acquired resistance") after a median of 9 to 12 months. In patients with clinical acquired...
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