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SUBMITTER: Wu WS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263962 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Wen-Shuo WS Chen Yuh-Min YM
Journal of personalized medicine 20140625 3
In the era of personalized medicine, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibition with tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) has been a mainstay of treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with an EGFR mutation. Acquired resistance, especially substitution of methionine for threonine at position 790 (T790M), which has accounted for more than half of the cases, developed inevitably in patients who were previously treated with EGFR-TKI. At present, there is no standard treatment f ...[more]