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==General== | ==General== | ||
*Adenocarcinoma is the most common (primary lung cancer).<ref name=pmid19118313>{{cite journal |author=Lutschg JH |title=Lung cancer |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=360 |issue=1 |pages=87-8; author reply 88 |year=2009 |month=January |pmid=19118313 |doi=10.1056/NEJMc082208 |url=}}</ref> | |||
*Adenocarcinoma is the non-smoker tumour - [[small cell carcinoma of the lung|SCLC]] and [[squamous cell carcinoma of the lung|squamous]] are more strongly associated with [[smoking]]. | |||
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*Lung adenocarcinoma may be treated with [[EGFR inhibitors]] (e.g. gefitinib (Iressa), erlotinib (Tarceva)).<ref name=pmid20855837>{{cite journal |author=Sun Y, Ren Y, Fang Z, ''et al.'' |title=Lung adenocarcinoma from East Asian never-smokers is a disease largely defined by targetable oncogenic mutant kinases |journal=J. Clin. Oncol. |volume=28 |issue=30 |pages=4616–20 |year=2010 |month=October |pmid=20855837 |doi=10.1200/JCO.2010.29.6038 |url=}}</ref> | *Lung adenocarcinoma may be treated with [[EGFR inhibitors]] (e.g. gefitinib (Iressa), erlotinib (Tarceva)).<ref name=pmid20855837>{{cite journal |author=Sun Y, Ren Y, Fang Z, ''et al.'' |title=Lung adenocarcinoma from East Asian never-smokers is a disease largely defined by targetable oncogenic mutant kinases |journal=J. Clin. Oncol. |volume=28 |issue=30 |pages=4616–20 |year=2010 |month=October |pmid=20855837 |doi=10.1200/JCO.2010.29.6038 |url=}}</ref> | ||