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Selectivity profile of afatinib for EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer.
Molecular bioSystems - 26 Apr 2016
Wang Debby D, Lee Victor H F, Zhu Guangyu, Zou Bin, Ma Lichun, Yan Hong
Abstract excerpt
EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has long been a research focus in lung cancer studies. Besides reversible tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), new-generation irreversible inhibitors, such as afatinib, embark on playing an important role in NSCLC treatment. To achieve an optimal application of these inhibitors, the correlation between the EGFR mutation status and the potency of such an inhibitor...
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