The addition of erlotinib to gemcitabine and cisplatin does not appear to improve median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer

Investigational New Drugs

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1375-1383

  Khalil, Mohamed A ^a   Qiao, Wei ^a   Carlson, Peter ^b   George, Binsah ^b   Javle, Milind ^a   Overman, Michael ^a   Varadhachary, Gauri ^a   Wolff, Robert A ^a   Abbruzzese, James L ^a   Fogelman, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Erlotinib; Gemcitabine; Nicotine; Pancreatic cancer; Platinum; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ERLOTINIB; GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CISPLATIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; QUINAZOLINES;

EID: 84884816251     PISSN: 01676997     EISSN: 15730646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10637-013-9967-2     Document Type: Article

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