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SUBMITTER: Ogita S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5312466 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ogita Shin S Wozniak Antoinette J AJ
Lung Cancer (Auckland, N.Z.) 20100503
Metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a debilitating and deadly disease with virtually no chance for long-term survival. Chemotherapy has improved both survival and quality of life for patients with advanced disease. Overall survival of patients with metastatic NSCLC has gradually increased from 8 to 12 months over the past three decades with the introduction of new chemotherapeutic drugs and agents directed at novel targets in the cancer cell. Epidermal growth factor receptor and vasc ...[more]