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Optimal management of EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer with disease progression on first-line tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Aug 2017
Liao Bin-Chi, Lin Chia-Chi, Lee Jih-Hsiang, Yang James Chih-Hsin
Abstract excerpt
The first-generation epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs), gefitinib and erlotinib, and the second-generation EGFR-TKI, afatinib, have all been approved as standard first-line treatments for advanced EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) based on superior progression-free survival results compared to platinum doublet chemotherapy regimens. Acquired resistance to an...
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