Successful long-term treatment with pemetrexed of NSCLC associated with EML4-ALK and low thymidylate synthase expression

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-159

  Takeda, Masayuki ^a   Okamoto, Isamu ^a   Sakai, Kazuko ^a   Tanaka, Kaoru ^a   Terashima, Masaaki ^a   Nishio, Kazuto ^a   Nakagawa, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

EML4 ALK; NSCLC; Pemetrexed; Predictive marker; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; CARBOPLATIN; ECHINODERM MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN LIKE 4; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEMETREXED; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; FEMALE; GLUTAMATES; GUANINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863150140     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: 19380690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cllc.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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