KRAS status analysis and anti-EGFR therapies: is comprehensiveness a biologist's fancy or a clinical necessity?

Br J Cancer. 2010 Mar 16;102(6):1074-5; author reply 1076-7. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605582. Epub 2010 Feb 16.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / therapeutic use*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Carcinoma / drug therapy*
  • Carcinoma / genetics
  • Carcinoma / pathology
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / genetics
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / pathology
  • DNA Mutational Analysis
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm / genetics
  • ErbB Receptors / antagonists & inhibitors
  • ErbB Receptors / immunology*
  • Genes, ras*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Medical Futility
  • Mutation / physiology
  • Neoplasm Metastasis

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • EGFR protein, human
  • ErbB Receptors