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A novel EGFR exon 21 indel mutation in lung adenocarcinoma and response to dacomitinib: A case report.
Medicine - 26 Aug 2022
Zhou Tao, Xiong Qiang, Hong Chen, Wang Qian, Wang Wenxian, Xu Chunwei, Cai Jing
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RATIONALE: Uncommon epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations are increasingly being identified in non-small cell lung cancer. Insertion and deletion mutations have been detected in exons 18, 19, and 20, but not in exon 21. In patients with uncommon mutations, the second-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor afatinib has shown good efficacy, whereas that of dacomitinib, another second-generation...
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