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TARCEVA (erlotinib) - Use in Maintenance Treatment for Patients

Issued January 21, 2016
Issue
A recent study, IUNO (B025460), demonstrated that the benefit-risk of using TARCEVA for maintenance treatment after 4 cycles of standard platinum-based first line chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC whose tumours do not have an EGFR activating mutation is negative.
Hazard description
Product safety