Afatinib benefits lung cancer patients whose cancer progressed after treatment with EGFR inhibitors

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 09:20 in Health & Medicine

Lung cancer patients who have already been treated with the EGFR inhibitors erlotinib or gefitinib seem to gain further benefits in terms of progression-free survival and tumour shrinkage when treated with the new drug afatinib, the results of a Phase IIb/III trial show...

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