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Addressing epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in non-small cell lung cancer.
Expert review of respiratory medicine - 1 Jan 2016
Noda Shoko, Kanda Shintaro
Abstract excerpt
Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) have significantly improved the survival of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring EGFR activating mutations. However, nearly all EGFR-mutant NSCLC tumors eventually acquire resistance to the currently used EGFR-TKIs and subsequently progress clinically. Acquired resistance to EGFR-TKIs is thus a huge issue in the...
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