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Clinical outcome of patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving front-line chemotherapy according to EGFR and K-RAS mutation status
Lung Cancer, 10/30/09

Kalikaki A et al. – The data indicate that EGFR mutation status could be predictive for response to cytotoxic front–line chemotherapy in patients with NSCLC. Additional prospective studies are needed in order to validate this observation and to define whether these patients should be preferentially treated with front–line TKIs or chemotherapy.

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Lung cancer: a biologically different disease in women?
Women's Health, 10/30/09 Relevance Score: 73%

Oestrogen plus progestin and lung cancer in postmenopausal women (Womens Health Initiative trial): a post-hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial
The Lancet, 10/12/09 Relevance Score: 72%

Haplotype and Cell Proliferation Analyses of Candidate Lung Cancer Susceptibility Genes on Chromosome 15q24-25.1
Cancer Research, 10/06/09 Relevance Score: 71%

Noninvasive detection of lung cancer by analysis of exhaled breath
BMC Cancer, 10/09/09 Relevance Score: 70%

African American lung cancer patients may have different response to new cancer-fighting drugs
EurekAlert, 10/08/09 Relevance Score: 70%