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Predictive factors for a long-term response duration in non-squamous cell lung cancer patients treated with pemetrexed.
BMC cancer - 7 Jul 2016
Park Sojung, Kim Hyun Jung, Choi Chang-Min, Lee Dae Ho, Kim Sang-We, Lee Jung-Shin, Kim Woo Sung, Choi Se Hoon, Rho Jin Kyung, Lee Jae Cheol
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BACKGROUND: Pemetrexed is widely used for the treatment of advanced non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, factors that can predict the benefits of pemetrexed therapy have not yet been defined. METHODS: We compared the clinical and molecule pathological characteristics of good and poor responders among a cohort of 1,848 non-squamous NSCLC patients who had received at least two cycles of...
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