Continued treatment with gefitinib beyond progressive disease benefits patients with activating EGFR mutations

K Asami, T Okuma, T Hirashima, M Kawahara, S Atagi… - Lung Cancer, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Gefitinib is an effective treatment for patients with non-small cell lung
cancer who harbor activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. However …

First-line gefitinib for patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer harboring epidermal growth factor receptor mutations without indication for chemotherapy

A Inoue, K Kobayashi, K Usui, M Maemondo… - Journal of Clinical …, 2009 - ascopubs.org
Purpose This multicenter phase II study was undertaken to investigate the efficacy and
feasibility of gefitinib for patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) …

Prospective phase II study of gefitinib for chemotherapy-naive patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor gene …

A Inoue, T Suzuki, T Fukuhara, M Maemondo… - Journal of Clinical …, 2006 - ascopubs.org
Purpose This study was undertaken to investigate the efficacy and the feasibility of gefitinib
for chemotherapy-naïve patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) …

A phase II trial of gefitinib monotherapy in pretreated patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer not harboring activating EGFR mutations: implications of …

MK Choi, JY Hong, WJ Chang, MJ Kim, SM Kim… - Cancer chemotherapy …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Efficacy of gefitinib therapy strongly depends on epidermal growth factor receptor
(EGFR) mutation status in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However …

Clinical outcomes of advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients screened for epidermal growth factor receptor gene mutations

K Yoshida, Y Yatabe, J Park, S Ogawa, JY Park… - Journal of cancer …, 2010 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the relationship between the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)
mutation status and the effectiveness of gefitinib monotherapy or chemotherapy in patients …

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 …

First-or second-line therapy with gefitinib produces equal survival in non–small cell lung cancer

JY Wu, CJ Yu, CH Yang, SG Wu, YH Chiu… - American journal of …, 2008 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Gefitinib is effective in treating patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. Deletions in exon 19 and L858R in …

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 …

Continuation of gefitinib beyond progression in patients with EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer: A phase II single-arm trial

SW Lim, S Park, Y Kim, JH Cho, SE Park, H Lee… - Lung Cancer, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Several studies have demonstrated the promise of continuation of epidermal
growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) beyond progression in patients …

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 …