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Tumour content ratio matters for detecting epidermal growth factor receptor mutation by cobas test in small biopsies; a retrospective study.
BMC cancer - 6 Feb 2020
Kogo Mariko, Fujimoto Daichi, Hosoya Kazutaka, Nagata Kazuma, Nakagawa Atsushi, Tachikawa Ryo, Yamashita Daisuke, Kitamura Yuka, Imai Yukihiro, Tomii Keisuke
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BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate the benefit of treatment with osimertinib over that with conventional epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) for untreated EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Cobas ver2 is the only companion diagnostic method for detecting EGFR mutations with osimertinib treatment. We clinically experience false negative cases with this test, but...
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