Epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in small cell lung cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6092-6096

  Tatematsu, Akiko ^a   Shimizu, Junichi ^a   Murakami, Yoshiko ^b   Horio, Yoshitsugu ^a   Nakamura, Shigeo ^b   Hida, Toyoaki ^a   Mitsudomi, Tetsuya ^a   Yatabe, Yasushi ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GEFITINIB; ENZYME INHIBITOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, ERBB-1; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA;

EID: 58149149814     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-0332     Document Type: Article

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