At the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Asia 2015 Congress, held in Singapore from 18 December to 21 December 2015, Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD, from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, discusses the results to date of LUX-Lung 7, a global, randomised, open-label, phase 2b clinical trial comparing afatinib, an irreversible ErbB family blocker, to gefitinib for the first-line treatment of patients who have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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