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Impact of heavy smoking on the benefits from first-line EGFR-TKI therapy in patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma.
Medicine - 1 Mar 2018
Zhang Ping, Nie Xin, Bie Zhixin, Li Lin
Abstract excerpt
Smoking is a risk factor for nonsmall cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and is associated with a lower response to epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKI). The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the smoking status on the benefits from first-line EGFR-TKI in NSCLC patients with EGFR mutation.This was a retrospective study of 159 patients with advanced NSCLC treated at the...
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