Challenges in implementing personalized medicine for lung cancer within a national healthcare system

Journal of Personalized Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 77-92

  Dawe, David E ^a   Ellis, Peter M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crizotinib; Delivery of healthcare; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Erlotinib; Gefitinib; Molecular targeted therapy; Non small cell lung cancer; Personalized medicine

Indexed keywords

AFATINIB; BEVACIZUMAB; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CRIZOTINIB; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; PACLITAXEL; PEMETREXED; PLACEBO; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANEMIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FUNDING; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84980508112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jpm2030077     Document Type: Review

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