Non-small cell lung cancer: Current treatment and future advances

Translational Lung Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 288-300

  Zappa, Cecilia ^a   Mousa, Shaker A ^a  

^a ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Immunotherapy; Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; BELAGENPUMATUCEL L; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CANCER VACCINE; CISPLATIN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IPILIMUMAB; MELANOMA ANTIGEN 3; NIVOLUMAB; PACLITAXEL; PEMBROLIZUMAB; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; TECEMOTIDE; TG 4010;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE GENE; ARTICLE; B RAF KINASE GENE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MEDIAN SURVIVAL TIME; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE K RAS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PASSIVE SMOKING; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMOKING;

EID: 84977470126     PISSN: 22186751     EISSN: 22264477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/tlcr.2016.06.07     Document Type: Article

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