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ELCC 2016 | Phase 2 trial of chemotherapy plus gefitinib as first-line treatment for lung adenocarcinoma
At the 6th European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC), held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 13–16 April 2016, Giorgio Scagliotti, MD, PhD, from the University of Turin, Turin, Italy, discusses a phase 2 trial evaluating the combination of chemotherapy and gefitinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), as first-line treatment for patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma and activating EGFR mutations.
