Good response to gefitinib in a lung adenocarcinoma harboring a heterozygous complex mutation of L833V and H835L in epidermal growth factor receptor gene

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Tsung Ying ^a   Tsai, Chi Ren ^b   Chen, Kun Chieh ^b   Hsu, Kuo An ^b   Lee, Hsien Ming ^c   Chang, Gee Chen ^b,d  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EXON; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALAISE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XERODERMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENES, ERBB-1; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MUTATION; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 79957951506     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.33.5802     Document Type: Article

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