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Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation in a Patient with Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung: Who Should Be Tested?

We report the case of a 64-year-old ex-smoker with metastatic poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung and an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation in exon 21 (p.L858R) who achieved prolonged clinical benefit from treatment with an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TK...

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Autores principales:	Schwitter, Michael, Rodriguez, Regulo, Schneider, Tino, Kluckert, Thomas, Brutsche, Martin, Früh, Martin
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	S. Karger AG 2013
Materias:	Published online: May, 2013
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23741221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000351607

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