Genomic profiling toward precision medicine in non-small cell lung cancer: Getting beyond EGFR

Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-79

  Richer, Amanda L ^a   Friel, Jacqueline M ^a   Carson, Vashti M ^b   Inge, Landon J ^a   Whitsett, Timothy G ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidermal growth factor receptor; Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog; Non small cell lung cancer; Precision medicine; Serine threonine kinase 11; Tumor protein p53

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZD 9291; B RAF KINASE; BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CRIZOTINIB; DACOMITINIB; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ERLOTINIB; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; K RAS PROTEIN; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; PANITUMUMAB; PEMETREXED; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN RET; RO 5490258; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINBLASTINE;

ALK GENE; BRAF GENE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG TARGETING; EGFR GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LKB1 GENE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MET GENE; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; ONCOGENE K RAS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 84923342773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/PGPM.S52845     Document Type: Review

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