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Fighting cancer drug resistance: Opportunities and challenges for mutation-specific EGFR inhibitors.
Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy - 1 May 2015
Juchum Michael, Günther Marcel, Laufer Stefan A
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Multiple mutations in the EGFR gene are a major cause for the failure of Erlotinib and Gefitinib in the treatment of patients harboring non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who initially responded to this therapy. The development of these tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is going back to the early 90s, where cancer was widely considered and fully treated as a disease of an organ. Fundamental gain of knowledge in...
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