A Multicenter, Prospective, Observational Study to Identify Different Prognostic Factors Related to Survival in Patients With Previously Treated Advanced NSCLC With Wild-type Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Gene.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients, >/= 18 years of age
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed locally advanced or metastatic non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
- Patients with known wild-type EGFR gene; patients with unknown EGFR mutation status
are allowed if they fulfil the following criteria:
- squamous cell carcinoma lung cancer histology, and
- current smoker, or former smoker who has stopped smoking less than 10 years ago and
has had a total of >15 pack-years of smoking
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 2
- Patients having failed one prior chemotherapy regimen and eligible for a second-line
treatment with Tarceva
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current treatment with an investigational drug or participation in another
investigational study
- Severe or uncontrolled systemic disease, active infection, concomitant malignancy or
a second primary malignancy except for in situ carcinoma of the cervix or adequately
treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin
- Clinically active interstitial lung disease
- Recent myocardial infarction or unstable angina
- Progressive or uncontrolled brain metastases