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SUBMITTER: Yamane H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3594004 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamane Hiromichi H Ochi Nobuaki N Yasugi Masayuki M Tabayashi Takayuki T Yamagishi Tomoko T Monobe Yasumasa Y Hisamoto Akiko A Kiura Katsuyuki K Takigawa Nagio N
OncoTargets and therapy 20130306
A 72-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with Stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Chest computed tomography revealed a mass in the upper lobe of the right lung, with pleural effusion. Cytologic examination identified adenocarcinoma cells in the right pleural effusion. Furthermore, both a deletion mutation in exon 19 and a threonine-methionine substitution mutation at position 790 in exon 20 (T790M) were detected in the epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) in the malignant ce ...[more]