Gefitinib - A novel targeted approach to treating cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 956-965

  Herbst, Roy S ^a   Fukuoka, Masahiro ^b   Baselga, José ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ERLOTINIB; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEFITINIB; LAPATINIB; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PANITUMUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANDETANIB;

ACNE; ADVANCED CANCER; ASTHENIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN TOXICITY; SOLID TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 10344239413     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1506     Document Type: Review

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