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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Aik Choon Tan
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-9599 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cancer research 20080401 8
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor erlotinib is approved for treatment of pancreatic cancer but the overall activity is minimal, and known predictive factors for EGFR inhibitor efficacy are infrequent in this disease. We tested the hypothesis that global activation of the EGFR pathway is predictive of EGFR inhibitor efficacy. Pancreatic cancer tumors directly xenografted at surgery were treated with the EGFR inhibitors erlotinib and cetuximab and analyzed for biological featur ...[more]