In the treatment of lung cancer, Tarceva (also known as Erlotinib) and Iressa (also known as Gefitinib) are relatively new medications which have been a wonderfully welcome new addition to the weapons available to us in the fight against this difficult disease. A key question has been: What do we do when one of these […]
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Does treatment of Lung Cancer with Tarceva help after treatment with Iressa stops working?
January 20th, 2010 by RemwesMedical
Posted in Lung Cancer, What's New 
Tags: EFFR Mutation, Erlotinib, Failure, Gefitinib, Iressa, NSCLC, tarceva, Treatment failure 
1 Comment »Lung Cancer Chemotherapy
November 15th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
The chemotherapy that is used to treat lung cancer is constantly evolving. As new treatments are discoverd and more effective ways of fighting lung cancer are found, these new treatments are incorporated into the fight against lung cancer.
Posted in Chemotherapy, Lung Cancer Tags: Erlotinib, Iressa, Lung Cancer therapy, lung cancer treatment, Nilotinib, tarceva No Comments »Tarceva
November 6th, 2009 by RemwesMedical
Tarceva is a drug commonly used to treat several types of non-small cell lung cancer. Often Tarceva is used used together with gemcitabine to treat pancreatic cancer. Tarceva is a type of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor.