Successful treatment of lung cancer with gefitinib and EGFR mutation status determination using EBUS-TBNA samples in an extremely old patient

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 1905-1907

  Nishimura, Hiroki ^a   Nakajima, Takahiro ^a   Itakura, Meiji ^a   Shingyoji, Masato ^a   Iizasa, Toshihiko ^a   Kimura, Hideki ^a  

^a CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration; Epidermal growth factor receptor mutation; Gefitinib; Nonagenarian

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GEFITINIB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; POINT MUTATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MUTATION; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71049167700     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2494     Document Type: Article

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