例如，艾比特思和名为表皮生长因子受体(EGFR)的细胞表面蛋白的结合。

Erbitux, for example, binds to a cell-surface protein called epidermal growth-factor receptor (EGFR).

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许多种类的肿瘤可产生比普通细胞高得多的表皮生长因子受体，影响之一就是刺激了肿瘤细胞的扩散。

Many types of tumour produce far more EGFR than normal cells do, and one effect of that is to stimulate the proliferation of tumour cells.

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“从不吸烟的患者对一类叫表皮生长因子受体抑制剂的药物反应更好，因为这类患者有表皮生长因子受体基因突变的可能性更大一些。”鲁丁说。

"Patients who never smoked respond better to a certain class of drugs called EGFR inhibitors, because lung cancer in these patients more often contain mutations in the EGFR gene," Rudin says.

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