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Gefitinib plus best supportive care in previously treated patients with refractory advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: results from a randomised, placebo-controlled, multicentre study (Iressa Survival Evaluation in Lung Cancer)

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Treatment with gefitinib was not associated with significant improvement in survival in either coprimary population, and there was pronounced heterogeneity in survival outcomes between groups of patients, with some evidence of benefit among never-smokers and patients of Asian origin.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2005-10-29. It has received 2071 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Survival rate & Gefitinib.

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Epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in lung cancer

TL;DR: 'oncogenic shock' is described as a mechanistic explanation for the apoptosis that follows the acute treatment of susceptible cells with kinase inhibitors, essential to the successful use of targeted therapies in common epithelial cancers.
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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Treatment, and Survivorship

TL;DR: The introduction of angiogenesis, epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors, and other new anti-cancer agents is changing the present and future of this disease and will certainly increase the number of lung cancer survivors.
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New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors

TL;DR: A model by which a combined assessment of all existing lesions, characterized by target lesions and nontarget lesions, is used to extrapolate an overall response to treatment is proposed, which is largely validated by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Group and integrated into the present guidelines.
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Activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor underlying responsiveness of non-small-cell lung cancer to gefitinib

TL;DR: A subgroup of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer have specific mutations in the EGFR gene which correlate with clinical responsiveness to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor gefitinib, and these mutations lead to increased growth factor signaling and confer susceptibility to the inhibitor.
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