Asian Ethnicity as a Predictor of Response in Patients with Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Gefitinib on an Expanded Access Program
Thomas SK, Fossella FV, Liu D, Schaerer R, Tsao AS, Kies MS, Pisters KM, Blumenschein GR, Glisson BS, Lee JJ, Herbst RS, Zinner RG. Asian Ethnicity as a Predictor of Response in Patients with Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Gefitinib on an Expanded Access Program. Clinical Lung Cancer 2006, 7: 326-331. PMID: 16640804, DOI: 10.3816/clc.2006.n.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExpanded Access ProgramCell lung cancerLung cancerAsian ethnicityD. Anderson Cancer CenterPartial response rateStable disease rateAdvanced-stage NSCLCPredictors of responseAccess programAnderson Cancer CenterEast Asian ethnicityChart reviewMedian survivalPartial responseIndependent predictorsMedian timeSmoking statusRetrospective studyCancer CenterPatientsResponse rateSurvival rateMultivariate analysisGefitinib