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Bedside to Bench Report

Successful treatment of a patient with Li–Fraumeni syndrome and metastatic lung adenocarcinoma harboring synchronous EGFR L858R and ERBB2 extracellular domain S310F mutations with the pan-HER inhibitor afatinib

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Pages 970-974 | Received 24 Feb 2014, Accepted 08 May 2014, Published online: 16 May 2014

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