Clinical Experience of Gefitinib in the Treatment of 32 Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients with Brain Metastases
Background and objective Brain metastasis was frequent in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with poor prognosis. Gefitinib was an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor which has been used in the treatment of NSCLC. Our study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxi...
Main Authors: | Jianping XU, Xiaoyan LIU, Sheng YANG, Xiangru ZHANG, Yuankai SHI |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | zho |
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Chinese Anti-Cancer Association; Chinese Antituberculosis Association
2015-09-01
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Series: | Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2015.09.05 |
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