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Osimertinib for the treatment of patients with EGFR mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer.
Drugs of today (Barcelona, Spain : 1998) - 1 Jun 2018
Alsharedi M, Bukamur H, Elhamdani A
Abstract excerpt
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, mostly seen in exon 19 or exon 21, are present in roughly 50% of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) of Asian ethnicity compared with 12% in Caucasians. EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients have an increased sensitivity to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), such as erlotinib, gefitinib or afatinib, showing superior response, progression-free...
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