Dose Escalation with Tarceva? Dosing to Rash?
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As I've described in a prior post, there is some evidence that patients who develop a rash on tarceva (erlotinib) have an improved survival compared to patients who experience no skin toxicity on tarceva. The key question is whether this is an issue of under-dosing some patients, or if it's just a correlate of overall immune function or constitution in a person, in which case increasing the dose won't improve the outcome.