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Study Design and Rationale for a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Selumetinib in Combination With Docetaxel as Second-Line Treatment in Patients With KRAS-Mutant Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (SELECT-1).
Clinical lung cancer - 1 Mar 2016
Jänne Pasi A, Mann Helen, Ghiorghiu Dana
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BACKGROUND: Oncogenic KRAS mutations represent the largest genomically defined subset of lung cancer, and are associated with activation of the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK pathway. There are currently no therapies specifically approved for patients with KRAS-mutant (KRASm) non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and these patients derive less clinical benefit from chemotherapy than the overall NSCLC population. In a recent phase...
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