Goff, Laura W.
Cardin, Dana B.
Whisenant, Jennifer G.
Du, Liping
Koyama, Tatsuki
Dahlman, Kimberly B.
Salaria, Safia N.
Young, Ruth T.
Ciombor, Kristen K.
Gilbert, Jill
Smith, Stephen James
Chan, Emily
Berlin, Jordan
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (2P30 CA068485-14)
Astellas Pharma US
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
T.J. Martell Foundation
Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation
Article History
Received: 23 August 2016
Accepted: 8 November 2016
First Online: 16 November 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: LWG has served as a consultant for Celgene and has institutional research funding from Astellas Pharma, Pfizer, Onxy, SunPharma, Lilly, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. DBC has served as a consultant for Merrimack and has institutional research funding from Synta, Incyte, Celgene, Hoffman-LaRoxhe, EMD-Serono, and Oncolytics Biotech. KBD has an immediate family member who is employed by Ardent Health Services. KKC has institutional research funding from Pfizer, Boston Biomedical, MedImmune, Onyx, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. JG has institutional research funding from AstraZeneca. EC has served on advisory boards for Castle Biosciences, Taiho, EMD-Serono, Amgen, Lilly, Advaxis, Bayer and Merrimack. JB has served as a consultant for Celgene, Genentech, Aduro, Boston Biomedical, Janssen, Cornerstone, Symphogen, and Bayer and has institutional research funding from Genentech, Abbvie, Taiho, Bayer, 5Prime, Phoenix, Incyte, and Vertex.
: This study was supported in part by Astellas Pharmaceutics, Inc. and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Support Grant (2P30 CA068485–14). Erlotinib was supplied for the study by Astellas Pharmaceutics, Inc. The ITR is supported by the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, the TJ Martell Foundation, and the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained for all individual participants included in the study.