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Clinical implications of germline BCL2L11 deletion polymorphism in pretreated advanced NSCLC patients with osimertinib therapy.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Jan 2021
Li Xuanzong, Zhang Dai, Li Butuo, Zou Bing, Wang Shijiang, Fan Bingjie, Li Wanlong, Yu Jinming, Wang Linlin
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INTRODUCTION: B-cell lymphoma 2-like 11 (BCL-2-like 11, BCL2L11, also known as BIM) deletion polymorphism (BIM-del) has been associated with resistance to first-generation epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs), and is a poor prognostic factor for EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Nevertheless, the impact of BIM-del in advanced NSCLC patients treated with...
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