Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors

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Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors, abbreviated EGFR inhibitors, is a class of drugs that blocks the EGF receptor.

Drugs

  • Gefitinib (Iressa).[1]
  • Erlotinib (Tarceva)).[1]

Use

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sun Y, Ren Y, Fang Z, et al. (October 2010). "Lung adenocarcinoma from East Asian never-smokers is a disease largely defined by targetable oncogenic mutant kinases". J. Clin. Oncol. 28 (30): 4616–20. doi:10.1200/JCO.2010.29.6038. PMID 20855837.