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Treatments for EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): The road to a success, paved with failures.
Pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Jun 2017
Lee Dae Ho
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The discovery of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activating mutations in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the success story of EGFR tyrosine kinases inhibitors (TKIs) have changed the paradigm of cancer therapy from empirical cytotoxic chemotherapy to molecular-targeted cancer therapy. As a result, EGFR TKI therapy, including gefitinib, erlotinib and afatinib, has become the standard therapy for...
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