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A safety assessment of crizotinib in the treatment of ALK-positive NSCLC patients.
Expert opinion on drug safety - 1 Mar 2015
Dikopf Alana, Wood Kevin, Salgia Ravi
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INTRODUCTION: In the past decade, the treatment of NSCLC has been revolutionized by the discovery of key oncogenic driver mutations and the therapies that specifically target these mutations. Crizotinib has been shown to be an inhibitor of MET, anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and ROS1 receptor tyrosine kinases, and is FDA approved for ALK inhibition. Crizotinib is effective in NSCLC that harbors ALK...
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