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Gilberto Lopes, MD, MBA, on the RELAY Trial in Metastatic NSCLC: Erlotinib and Ramucirumab in EGFR Mutant–Positive Disease

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Gilberto Lopes, MD, MBA, of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami, offers commentary on phase III findings from the RELAY study, which showed that erlotinib plus ramucirumab led to superior progression-free survival in previously untreated patients with EGFR mutant–positive NSCLC (Abstract 9000).

 



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