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Treatment of EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancers After Progression in Patients Receiving First-Line EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors : A Review.
JAMA oncology - 1 Jul 2016
Piotrowska Zofia, Sequist Lecia V
Abstract excerpt
IMPORTANCE: Patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer benefit from treatment with EGFR inhibitors such as erlotinib, gefitinib, and afatinib, but outcomes are limited by the eventual development of resistance to these agents. Over half of patients acquire a secondary T790M mutation in EGFR at the time of progression and a substantial minority develops resistance through other mechanisms. Multiple treatment strategies...
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