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Consolidative Local Ablative Therapy Improves the Survival of Patients With Synchronous Oligometastatic NSCLC Harboring EGFR Activating Mutation Treated With First-Line EGFR-TKIs.
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - 1 Sept 2018
Xu Qinghua, Zhou Fei, Liu Hui, Jiang Tao, Li Xuefei, Xu Yaping, Zhou Caicun
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INTRODUCTION: The aim of the current study was to investigate whether consolidative local ablative therapy (LAT) can improve the survival of patients with stage IV EGFR-mutant NSCLC who have oligometastatic disease treated with first-line EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy. METHODS: Patients with stage IV EGFR-mutant NSCLC and no more than five metastases within 2 months of diagnosis were identified....
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