Symptom improvement in lung cancer patients treated with erlotinib: quality of life analysis of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group Study BR.21.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on August 20, 2006

Authors

Andrea Bezjak1, Dongsheng Tu, Lesley Seymour, Gary Clark, Aleksandra Trajkovic, Mauro Zukin, Joseph Ayoub, Sergio Lago, Ronaldo de Albuquerque Ribeiro, Alexandra Gerogianni, Arnold Cyjon, Jonathan Noble, Francis Laberge, Raymond Tsz-Tong Chan, David Fenton, Joachim von Pawel, Martin Reck, Frances A Shepherd, National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group Study BR.21

Author Affiliations

1: Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. andrea.bezjak@rmp.uhn.on.ca

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