A phase II trial of gefitinib as first-line therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor mutations

H Asahina, K Yamazaki, I Kinoshita, N Sukoh… - British journal of …, 2006 - nature.com
Retrospective analysis has shown that activating mutations in exons 18–21 of the epidermal
growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene are a predictor of response to gefitinib. We conducted a …

Multicentre prospective phase II trial of gefitinib for advanced non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor mutations: results of the West Japan …

K Tamura, I Okamoto, T Kashii, S Negoro… - British journal of …, 2008 - nature.com
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of gefitinib and the feasibility of
screening for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations among select patients with …

Phase II prospective study of the efficacy of gefitinib for the treatment of stage III/IV non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations, irrespective of previous …

N Sunaga, Y Tomizawa, N Yanagitani, H Iijima, K Kaira… - Lung Cancer, 2007 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene are associated
with increased sensitivity of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to gefitinib, an EGFR …

[HTML][HTML] Prospective validation for prediction of gefitinib sensitivity by epidermal growth factor receptor gene mutation in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

K Yoshida, Y Yatabe, JY Park, J Shimizu… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2007 - Elsevier
Introduction: We evaluated the efficacy of gefitinib monotherapy prospectively in patients
with advanced or pretreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring epidermal …

Prospective phase II study of gefitinib in non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor gene mutations

K Sugio, H Uramoto, T Onitsuka, M Mizukami, Y Ichiki… - Lung Cancer, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: This study prospectively assessed the efficacy of gefitinib and the survival
benefit for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with epidermal growth factor …

Pooled analysis of the prospective trials of gefitinib monotherapy for EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancers

DB Costa, S Kobayashi, DG Tenen, MS Huberman - Lung Cancer, 2007 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations have been found in the
majority of gefitinib-responsive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients from …

Gefitinib for non-small-cell lung cancer patients with epidermal growth factor receptor gene mutations screened by peptide nucleic acid-locked nucleic acid PCR …

A Sutani, Y Nagai, K Udagawa, Y Uchida… - British journal of …, 2006 - nature.com
This study was prospectively designed to evaluate a phase II study of gefitinib for non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations …

Combined Survival Analysis of Prospective Clinical Trials of Gefitinib for Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer with EGFR Mutations

S Morita, I Okamoto, K Kobayashi, K Yamazaki… - Clinical Cancer …, 2009 - AACR
Purpose: Somatic mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene are
associated with an increased response to gefitinib in patients with non–small cell lung …

Efficacy of gefitinib for non‐adenocarcinoma non‐small‐cell lung cancer patients harboring epidermal growth factor receptor mutations: A pooled analysis of …

T Shukuya, T Takahashi, R Kaira, A Ono… - Cancer …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The efficacy of gefitinib for patients with non‐adenocarcinoma non‐small‐cell lung cancer
(NSCLC) harboring epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations is unclear, because …

Gefitinib as first-line treatment for patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with activating epidermal growth factor receptor mutation: Review of the evidence

C Gridelli, F De Marinis, M Di Maio, D Cortinovis… - Lung Cancer, 2011 - Elsevier
Gefitinib is a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor of epidermal growth factor receptor
(EGFR). Since 2004, it was clear that a substantial proportion of non-small-cell lung cancers …