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Yoon-Koo Kang
Researcher at University of Ulsan
Publications - 478
Citations - 40105
Yoon-Koo Kang is an academic researcher from University of Ulsan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & GiST. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 435 publications receiving 31382 citations. Previous affiliations of Yoon-Koo Kang include Asan Medical Center & Institut Gustave Roussy.
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Trastuzumab in combination with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for treatment of HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (ToGA): a phase 3, open-label, randomised controlled trial
Yung-Jue Bang,Eric Van Cutsem,A. Feyereislova,Hyun Cheol Chung,Lin Shen,Akira Sawaki,Florian Lordick,Atsushi Ohtsu,Yasushi Omuro,Taroh Satoh,G. Aprile,Evgeny Kulikov,Julie Hill,Michaela Lehle,Josef Rüschoff,Yoon-Koo Kang +15 more
TL;DR: Trastuzumab in combination with chemotherapy can be considered as a new standard option for patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer.
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Efficacy and safety of sorafenib in patients in the Asia-Pacific region with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a phase III randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Ann-Lii Cheng,Yoon-Koo Kang,Zhendong Chen,Chao Jung Tsao,Shukui Qin,Jun Suk Kim,Rongcheng Luo,Jifeng Feng,Sheng-Long Ye,Tsai Sheng Yang,Jianming Xu,Yan Sun,Houjie Liang,Jiwei Liu,Jiejun Wang,Won Young Tak,Hongming Pan,Karin Burock,Jessie Zou,D. Voliotis,Zhongzhen Guan +20 more
TL;DR: Sorafenib is effective for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in patients from the Asia-Pacific region, and is well tolerated.
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Nivolumab in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (CheckMate 040): an open-label, non-comparative, phase 1/2 dose escalation and expansion trial
Anthony B. El-Khoueiry,Bruno Sangro,Thomas Yau,Todd S. Crocenzi,Masatoshi Kudo,Chiun Hsu,Tae You Kim,Su Pin Choo,Jörg Trojan,Theodore H. Welling,Tim Meyer,Yoon-Koo Kang,Winnie Yeo,Akhil Chopra,Jeffrey Anderson,Christine Dela Cruz,Lixin Lang,Jaclyn Neely,Hao Tang,Homa Dastani,Ignacio Melero +20 more
TL;DR: Durable objective responses show the potential of nivolumab for treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, and safety and tolerability for the escalation phase and objective response rate were primary endpoints.
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Nivolumab in patients with advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer refractory to, or intolerant of, at least two previous chemotherapy regimens (ONO-4538-12, ATTRACTION-2): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial
Yoon-Koo Kang,Narikazu Boku,Taroh Satoh,Min Hee Ryu,Yee Chao,Ken Kato,Hyun Cheol Chung,Jen-Shi Chen,Kei Muro,Won Ki Kang,Kun-Huei Yeh,Takaki Yoshikawa,Sang Cheul Oh,Li Yuan Bai,Takao Tamura,Keun Wook Lee,Yasuo Hamamoto,Jong Gwang Kim,Keisho Chin,Do Youn Oh,Keiko Minashi,Jae Yong Cho,Masahiro Tsuda,Li-Tzong Chen,Li-Tzong Chen +24 more
TL;DR: In this phase 3 study, the survival benefits indicate that nivolumab might be a new treatment option for heavily pretreated patients with advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer.
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Efficacy and safety of regorafenib for advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours after failure of imatinib and sunitinib (GRID): an international, multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial
George D. Demetri,Peter Reichardt,Yoon-Koo Kang,Jean-Yves Blay,Piotr Rutkowski,Hans Gelderblom,Peter Hohenberger,Michael F. Leahy,Margaret von Mehren,Heikki Joensuu,Giuseppe Badalamenti,Martin E. Blackstein,Axel Le Cesne,Patrick Schöffski,Robert G. Maki,Sebastian Bauer,Binh Bui Nguyen,Jianming Xu,Toshirou Nishida,John Chung,Christian Kappeler,Iris Kuss,D. Laurent,Paolo G. Casali +23 more
TL;DR: The results of this study show that oral regorafenib can provide a significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with placebo in patients with metastatic GIST after progression on standard treatments.