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The correlation between EGFR mutation status and the risk of brain metastasis in patients with lung adenocarcinoma.
Journal of neuro-oncology - 1 Aug 2015
Li Bo, Sun Suo-Zhu, Yang Ming, Shi Jian-Ling, Xu Wei, Wang Xi-Fan, Song Mao-Min, Chen Huo-Ming
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To explore the correlation between epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status and the risk of brain metastasis (BM) in patients with lung adenocarcinoma, the clinical data of 100 patients with pathologically confirmed lung adenocarcinoma and known EGFR mutation status at exon 18, 19, 20, or 21 were analyzed retrospectively. The incidence of BM was similar between patients with wild-type EGFR and...
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