African-Americans equally likely to benefit from erlotinib and other targeted lung cancer therapy
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 15:35
in Health & Medicine
African-American patients with non-small cell lung cancer are just as likely to display an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation in tumors as Caucasians, which suggests they are as likely to benefit from targeted therapies such as erlotinib.