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Nature Reviews Cancer 8, 484–485 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrc2424

Signalling: Survival of the sweetest

Katharine H. Wrighton

Response rates to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors in cancer treatment have been surprisingly and disappointingly low. Zhang Weihua and colleagues now shed some light on this issue by revealing a kinase-independent function of EGFR in maintaining cell survival.