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Successful treatment with afatinib after grade 3 hepatotoxicity induced by both gefitinib and erlotinib in EGFR mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Sept 2016
Zenke Yoshitaka, Umemura Shigeki, Sugiyama Eri, Kirita Keisuke, Matsumoto Shingo, Yoh Kiyotaka, Niho Seiji, Ohmatsu Hironobu, Goto Koichi
Abstract excerpt
Hepatotoxicity is a major cause of the withdrawal of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) when treating EGFR mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We report a case in which gefitinib- and elrotinib-induced severe hepatotoxicity arose in a patient with the uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase isoform 1A1 (UGT1A1) and cytochrome p450 3A5 (CYP3A5) poor...
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