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Gefitinib Plus Chemotherapy Versus Chemotherapy in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation-Positive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Resistant to First-Line Gefitinib (IMPRESS): Overall Survival and Biomarker Analyses.

J Clin Oncol

December 2017

Tony S.K. Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China; Yi-Long Wu and Jin-Ji Yang, Guangdong General Hospital and Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou; Jie Wang, Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing; You Lu, Sichuan University, Sichuan; Xiaojin Shi, AstraZeneca, Shanghai, People's Republic of China; James Chih-Hsin Yang, The National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; Sang-We Kim, University of Ulsan College of Medicine; Myung-Ju Ahn, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Kazuhiko Nakagawa, Kindai University; Shinji Atagi, Kinkichuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka, Japan; Santiago Ponce, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Yuri Rukazenkov, AstraZeneca, Cambridge; Vincent Haddad, AstraZeneca, Royston, United Kingdom; Kenneth S. Thress, AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA; and Jean-Charles Soria, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus and University Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France.

Purpose The Iressa Mutation-Positive Multicentre Treatment Beyond ProgRESsion Study (IMPRESS) compared the continuation of gefitinib plus chemotherapy with placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with epidermal growth factor receptor ( EGFR) mutation-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with progression (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors 1.1) after first-line gefitinib. Primary results indicated no difference between treatments in terms of progression-free survival (PFS).

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Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cisplatin-based chemotherapy followed by surgery for patients with a malignant nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT) of the mediastinum.

Methods: Ten patients with malignant NSGCTs received cisplatin-based induction chemotherapy and then underwent surgery. The clinicopathological characteristics of these 10 patients were examined retrospectively.

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