Clinical predictors of response to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 86-93

  Fukihara, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Naohiro ^b   Taniguchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kondoh, Yasuhiro ^a   Kimura, Tomoki ^a   Kataoka, Kensuke ^a   Matsuda, Toshiaki ^a   Yokoyama, Toshiki ^a   Hasegawa, Yoshinori ^b  

^a TOSEI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Erlotinib; Gefitinib; Major mutations; Non small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892752438     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000357129     Document Type: Article

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