Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors: Coming of age

Cancer Control

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-79

  Mahipal, Amit ^a   Kothari, Nishi ^a   Gupta, Shilpa ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; ERLOTINIB; FLUOROPYRIMIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; IRINOTECAN; K RAS PROTEIN; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PANITUMUMAB; TUMOR MARKER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; METASTASIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 84890956894     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327481402100111     Document Type: Article

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