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SUBMITTER: Eadens MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5312477 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eadens Matthew J MJ Robinson Steven I SI Price Katharine Ar KA
Lung Cancer (Auckland, N.Z.) 20110721
Maintenance therapy for advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer has shown some clinical benefit for patients by improving progression-free survival and, to a lesser extent, overall survival. Two main strategies exist for maintenance therapy, ie, continuation and switch maintenance. Continuation maintenance involves the continued use of one of the induction drugs beyond 4-6 cycles of initial treatment. Switch maintenance utilizes a third agent initiated after first-line chemotherapy. Both cytotoxic ag ...[more]