Volumetric tumor growth in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients with EGFR mutations during EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy: Developing criteria to continue therapy beyond RECIST progression

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 3761-3768

  Nishino, Mizuki ^a   Dahlberg, Suzanne E ^b   Cardarella, Stephanie ^a   Jackman, David M ^a   Rabin, Michael S ^a   Ramaiya, Nikhil H ^a   Hatabu, Hiroto ^a   Jänne, Pasi A ^a   Johnson, Bruce E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors; lung cancer; tumor growth rate; tumor volume

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMATIC MUTATION;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS; LUNG CANCER; TUMOR GROWTH RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TUMOR BURDEN; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84886091897     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28290     Document Type: Article

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