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Gefitinib (Iressa) is better than Standard Therapy in Lung Cancer with EGFR Mutations

Gefitinib (Iressa) is more effective than first-line therapy in improving survival without disease in patients with advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and epidermal growth-factor receptor (EGFR) mutations.  The current study was conducted in 230 patients from 43 centers in Japan, … Continue reading

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Gefitinib Improves Progression-Free Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer

According to a new study published in the Clinical Cancer Research, adding epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor gefitinib (Iressa) to anastrozole (Arimidex) improved progression-free survival in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. The study randomized 93 postmenopausal … Continue reading

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