作者: Justice R , Johnson , Pazdur R , Sridhara R , Senderowicz Am
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关键词: Internal medicine 、 Oncology 、 Tyrosine-kinase inhibitor 、 Chemotherapy regimen 、 Medicine 、 Pancreas 、 Epidermal growth factor receptor 、 Lung cancer 、 Erlotinib 、 Pancreatic cancer 、 Gemcitabine
摘要: Erlotinib (Tarceva) is a human epidermal growth factor receptor type 1/epidermal (HER1/EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor initially approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer after failure at least one prior chemotherapy regimen. In this report, we present pivotal study that led to approval erlotinib in combination gemcitabine (Gemzar) advanced/metastatic chemonaive pancreatic patients. The demonstrated statistically significant increase overall survival accompanied an toxicity. Physicians now have new option adenocarcinoma pancreas.