Targeted therapies in development for non-small cell lung cancer

Journal of Carcinogenesis

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Reungwetwattana, Thanyanan ^a,b   Dy, Grace ^b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; heat shock protein 90 inhibitors; non small cell lung cancer; programmed cell death 1 receptor inhibitors; protein kinase inhibitors

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CD135 ANTIGEN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DISCOIDIN; DOCETAXEL; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ERLOTINIB; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GEFITINIB; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; JANUS KINASE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MATUZUMAB; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NECITUMUMAB; NIMOTUZUMAB; PACLITAXEL; PANITUMUMAB; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A; PROTEIN RET; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZALUTUMUMAB;

ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84893091839     PISSN: 09746773     EISSN: 14773163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1477-3163.123972     Document Type: Article

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