EGFR: The paradigm of an oncogene-driven lung cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2221-2226

  Riely, Gregory J ^a   Yu, Helena A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; ASP 8273; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DACOMITINIB; EGF 816; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; HM 61713; ICOTINIB; IMATINIB; NAVELBINE; NERATINIB; OSIMERTINIB; PEMETREXED; PLACEBO; PROTEIN KINASE B; ROCILETINIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EGFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXON; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE EGFR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; QT PROLONGATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; MUTATION; ONCOGENES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 84941966189     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-14-3154     Document Type: Article

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