Factors associated with a poor response to gefitinib in the NEJ002 study: Smoking and the L858R mutation

Highlights • EGFR-TKI treatment for NSCLC with EGFR mutation shows high response rate and long PFS. • But several cases showed poor response. • In NEJ002 study, 8.2% cases were showed no response to the gefitinib treatment. • Heavy smoking and the L858R mutation may be related to poor response....

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Veröffentlicht in:Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Netherlands), 2015-05, Vol.88 (2), p.181-186
Hauptverfasser: Fukuhara, Tatsuro, Maemondo, Makoto, Inoue, Akira, Kobayashi, Kunihiko, Sugawara, Shunichi, Oizumi, Satoshi, Isobe, Hiroshi, Gemma, Akihiko, Harada, Masao, Yoshizawa, Hirohisa, Kinoshita, Ichiro, Fujita, Yuka, Saijo, Yasuo, Hagiwara, Koichi, Morita, Satoshi, Nukiwa, Toshihiro
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • EGFR-TKI treatment for NSCLC with EGFR mutation shows high response rate and long PFS. • But several cases showed poor response. • In NEJ002 study, 8.2% cases were showed no response to the gefitinib treatment. • Heavy smoking and the L858R mutation may be related to poor response.
ISSN:0169-5002
1872-8332
DOI:10.1016/j.lungcan.2015.02.004