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) …

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 …

Gefitinib or chemotherapy for non–small-cell lung cancer with mutated EGFR

M Maemondo, A Inoue, K Kobayashi… - New England journal …, 2010 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Non–small-cell lung cancer with sensitive mutations of the epidermal growth
factor receptor (EGFR) is highly responsive to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as …

Randomized phase II trial of gefitinib with and without pemetrexed as first-line therapy in patients with advanced nonsquamous non–small-cell lung cancer with …

Y Cheng, H Murakami, PC Yang, J He… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To determine whether the addition of pemetrexed to gefitinib (P+ G) provides
clinical benefit, compared with gefitinib monotherapy, in patients with advanced …

First-Line Gefitinib in Patients With Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Harboring Somatic EGFR Mutations

LV Sequist, RG Martins, D Spigel… - Journal of clinical …, 2008 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Somatic mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) correlate with
increased response in patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with EGFR …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …