Targeted agents in non-small cell lung cancer therapy: What is there on the horizon?

Journal of Carcinogenesis

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Villaflor, Victoria ^a   Salgia, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular mechanism; HGF; MET; oncogene; receptor tyrosine kinase; targeted cancer therapy

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; CANCER VACCINE; EPHRIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; K RAS PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PIK3CA PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; ROS 1 PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA KINASE; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY;

EID: 84892575530     PISSN: 09746773     EISSN: 14773163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1477-3163.109253     Document Type: Article

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