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EGFR kinase inhibitors and gastric acid suppressants in EGFR-mutant NSCLC: a retrospective database analysis of potential drug interaction.
Oncotarget - 20 Dec 2016
Kumarakulasinghe Nesaretnam Barr, Syn Nicholas, Soon Yu Yang, Asmat Atasha, Zheng Huili, Loy En Yun, Pang Brendan, Soo Ross Andrew
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BACKGROUND: Erlotinib and gefitinib are weak base drugs whose absorption and clinical efficacy may be impaired by concomitant gastric acid suppressive (AS) therapy, yet proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2As) are widely indicated in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients for the prevention and treatment of erlotinib-induced gastrointestinal injury and...
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