In the same issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that contained the IPASS trial results, Dr. Rosell and colleagues reported results of their effort to institute large-scale EGFR mutation testing in lung cancer patients in Spain, who then received erlotinib (Tarceva).

Back when I first started doing this, one of my earliest posts (see here) was on the question of whether EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) (see introduction to this work in prior post).