Maintenance therapy for NSCLC: Consensus and controversy
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Maintenance Therapy for NSCLC: Consensus and Controversy.
Nowadays, advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is still an incurable disease. However, recent researches on maintenance therapy have led to considerable progress. Recently, pemetrexed and erlotinib have been approved for maintenance chemotherapy by both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency. However, there are not adequate data to support the maintenance the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chinese Journal of Cancer Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1000-9604,1993-0631
DOI: 10.1007/s11670-011-0254-5