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Epidermal growth factor receptor first generation tyrosine-kinase inhibitors
1 Nov 2019
Abstract excerpt
The epidermal growth factor receptor ( EGFR ) oncogene was positioned as an attractive target for drug development in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Gefitinib and erlotinib were the first two reversible inhibitors of the EGFR kinase. The discovery of EGFR kinase domain-activating mutations that significantly correlated with a high likelihood of response to EGFR tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKIs) allowed to...
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