Alice Goodman, Freelance Medical Writer

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The addition of panitumumab (Vectibix) to FOLFIRI (an irinotecan-based combination chemotherapy) prolonged progression-free survival and overall survival compared with FOLFIRI alone as second-line therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer in patients with wild-type KRAS.

Gefitinib, an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), is highly effective in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who harbor mutations of the EGFR gene (mEGFR), as demonstrated by a pooled analysis of four phase III studies and a separate phase III study presented at the ECCO 15 – ESMO 34 Joint Congress.