Blood test may identify lung cancer patients likely to respond to erlotinib
Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 05:50
in Health & Medicine
Testing for the presence of specific cancer protein 'fingerprints' in the blood of lung cancer patients may be a useful means of identifying a subgroup whose tumours are more likely to shrink when treated with the drug erlotinib, especially when other testing methods are unavailable, according to new data presented at the 2nd European Lung Cancer Conference in Geneva, Switzerland...