scholarly journals Suitability of Surgical Tumor Tissues, Biopsy, or Cytology Samples for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation Testing in Non–Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Based on Chinese Population

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 795-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Han ◽  
Zhishang Zhang ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Yinchen Shen ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
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Author(s):  
Walid Shalata ◽  
Binil Mathew Jacob ◽  
Abed Agbarya

Lung cancer is the most common malignancy across the world. The new era in lung cancer treatments, especially this past decade, has yielded novel categories of targeted therapy for specific mutations and adjuvant therapy, both of which have led to improved survival rates. In the present study, we review the changes and development of treatments, with a special focus on adjuvant therapy using tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) administered to non-small-cell lung carcinoma patients who had a complete resection of the tumor harboring a mutated epidermal growth factor receptor. The clinical trials are dating from the past (chemotherapy trials), present (TKIs) and future (ongoing trials).


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