Erlotinib therapy after initial platinum doublet therapy in patients with EGFR wild type non-small cell lung cancer: Results of a combined patient-level analysis of the NCIC CTG BR.21 and SATURN trials

Translational Lung Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 465-474

  Osarogiagbon, Raymond U ^a   Cappuzzo, Federico ^b   Ciuleanu, Tudor ^c   Leon, Larry ^d   Klughammer, Barbara ^e  

^a BAPTIST CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO TOSCANO TUMORI   (Italy)

^c THE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE PROF DR ION CHIRICUTA   (Romania)

^d GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^e F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lung cancer treatment; Survival; Targeted therapy; Tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954327768     PISSN: 22186751     EISSN: 22264477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2218-6751.2015.07.17     Document Type: Article

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