I understand that under certain conditions, taking Tarceva
(erlotinib) and Chemo at the same time gave more improvement, if the
patient is a never-smoker. The study that says this is :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=S
I
sort of got the impression that our doctors were familiar with only
part of that study - the part that says that there's no point in taking
Tarceva with chemo. However, our doctors didn't seem to remember that
the study showed that "Never smokers treated with erlotinib (Tarceva) and chemotherapy seemed to experience an improvement in survival".