Path-breaking innovations for lung cancer: a revolution in clinical practice

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Title:

Path-breaking innovations for lung cancer: a revolution in clinical practice

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WP 01/2012; Lung cancer is one of main cause of death worldwide and traditional chemotherapy agents have reached the maturity phase in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolutionary growth of knowledge patterns of vital radical innovations to treat lung cancer, driven by new technological paradigm of the targeted therapy, that have generating a revolution in clinical practice, increasing the overall survival of patients and quality of life. This new scientific pathway has evolving with an allometric process that involves a disproportionate growth of targeted therapy in relation to standard platinum-based chemotherapy alone.

Creator:

Mario Coccia

Publisher:

CNR Ceris

Date:

2012

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