CancerCompass message board discussion started by Caregiver2 on 5/31/2007 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,12636,0.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 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". Caregiver2 Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT