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Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ›› 2013, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (10): 1192-1195.

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The progress of maintenance therapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer

YE Chong-yang, XIE Jia-zheng   

  1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Yijishan Hospital Affiliated Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 241000, Anhui, China
  • Received:2013-05-31 Revised:2013-09-03 Online:2013-10-26 Published:2013-09-30

Abstract: The morbidity and mortality of lung cancer showed a trend of increased year by year, the vast majority of lung cancer is non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),and more than half diagnosed patients are stage ⅢB or Ⅳ, chemotherapy is the main treatment approaches for patients with this kind of, but 5 years of survival rate is only 5% to 11%.Maintennance treatment is one of the hot research topic in the field how to improve time recurrence and survival time in recent years.This paper reviewed recent advances in the maintenance treatment for NSCLC.

Key words: Carcinoma, Non-small cell lung, Maintenance therapy

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