Implications of key trials in advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1155-1164

  Bonomi, Philip D ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced NSCLC; Bevacizumab; Cetuximab; First line treatment; Molecular markers; Patient selection; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

AGATOLIMOD; APRINOCARSEN; BEVACIZUMAB; BEXAROTENE; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; K RAS PROTEIN; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PEMETREXED; PRINOMASTAT; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA INHIBITOR; REBIMASTAT; SORAFENIB; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCA ALKALOID;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; GENE MUTATION; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77149146757     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24815     Document Type: Review

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