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In this study, the efficacy of icotinib in unselected and <jats:italic>EGFR</jats:italic>‐mutated patients with lung SCC was assessed.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>We retrospectively analyzed the survival time of unselected advanced lung SCC patients treated with icotinib for at least 5 months between June 2013 and June 2016, and selected appropriate <jats:italic>EGFR‐</jats:italic>mutated advanced lung ADC patients to have 1:1 ratio of propensity score matching with <jats:italic>EGFR</jats:italic>‐mutated advanced lung SCC patients, and matching factors were age, sex, clinical stage, Karnofsky performance status (KPS), smoking history, <jats:italic>EGFR</jats:italic> mutation type, and treatment lines.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>A total of 487 unselected advanced lung SCC patients were available for analysis of icotinib treatment efficacy. The progression‐free survival (PFS) was 13.0 months (95% CI 12.2‐13.8), the overall survival (OS) was 16.0 months (95% CI 14.7‐17.3), and the objective response rate (ORR) was 41.3%. After propensity score matching, 78 <jats:italic>EGFR</jats:italic>‐mutated lung SCC and 78 <jats:italic>EGFR</jats:italic>‐mutated lung ADC patients were selected and compared. Although no statistical difference was found, ADC patients were associated with a longer PFS (15.8 months vs 12.7 months, <jats:italic>P </jats:italic>=<jats:italic> </jats:italic>0.275) and OS (24.2 months vs 18.5 months, <jats:italic>P </jats:italic>=<jats:italic> </jats:italic>0.150), and a better ORR (59.0% vs 48.7%, <jats:italic>P </jats:italic>=<jats:italic> </jats:italic>0.199) than compared with SCC patients when treated with icotinib.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title><jats:p>Icotinib has a modest therapeutic effect in patients with advanced lung SCC, especially for the population with <jats:italic>EGFR</jats:italic> mutations.</jats:p></jats:sec>","journal":"Cancer Medicine","year":2018,"id":599416,"datarank":0.3596842909197557,"base_score":2.3978952727983707,"endowment":2.3978952727983707,"self_citation_contribution":0.3596842909197557,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.3596842909197557,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":10,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":459877,"name":"Yan Xu","orcid":"0000-0002-6167-3319","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1536216,"name":"Fenlai Tan","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1388328,"name":"Lieming Ding","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1536217,"name":"Yongbin Ma","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":3063,"name":"Mengzhao Wang","orcid":"0009-0003-5717-5290","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":489856,"name":"Shuai Liang","orcid":"0000-0001-8391-0138","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Efficacy of icotinib in advanced lung squamous cell carcinoma","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>There are controversial data supporting the efficacy of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in patients with advanced lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). 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