Understanding and targeting resistance mechanisms in NSCLC

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 637-658

  Rotow, Julia ^a,b   Bivona, Trever G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; B RAF KINASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; JANUS KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE SRC; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; ROS1 PROTO ONCOGENE RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; STAT PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DRUG TARGETING; EPIGENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAK-STAT SIGNALING; LIQUID BIOPSY; LOCAL THERAPY; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MAPK SIGNALING; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE K RAS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85032169104     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2017.84     Document Type: Review

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