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Treatment options for EGFR mutant NSCLC with CNS involvement-Can patients BLOOM with the use of next generation EGFR TKIs?
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Jun 2017
Tan Chee-Seng, Cho Byoung Chul, Soo Ross A
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With the use of EGFR TKIs, patient survival is now prolonged and as a consequence, a higher chance of development of CNS metastases has been observed during the course of the disease. CNS metastases remains a therapeutically challenging subset of patient to treat owing to the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Prior to routine EGFR mutation testing, surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery and/or whole brain...
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