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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine (Lond). 2012 Dec;7(12):1895–1906. doi: 10.2217/nnm.12.160

Table 1. EGF receptor expression and estimated deaths in the USA for various EGF receptor-overexpressing cancers.

Tumor type Tumors overexpressing
EGF receptor (%) [75]		 Estimated deaths per
year in the USA [76]
Head and neck 80–100 11,500
Renal 50–90 13,500
Non-small-cell lung cancer 40–80 128,000
Glioma 40–63 14,000
Ovarian 35–70 15,500
Pancreatic 30–50 37,000
Colon 25–77 52,000