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Clinical Efficacy of Alectinib in Patients with ALK-Rearranged Non-small Cell Lung Cancer After Ceritinib Failure.
Anticancer research - 1 Nov 2017
Oya Yuko, Yoshida Tatsuya, Kuroda Hiroaki, Shimizu Junichi, Horio Yoshitsugu, Sakao Yukinori, Hida Toyoaki, Yatabe Yasushi
Abstract excerpt
Several second-generation inhibitors of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) have demonstrated potent activity in ALK rearrangement-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Two of these agents, ceritinib, and alectinib, recently received approval for the treatment of ALK-rearranged NSCLC in Japan. The efficacy of treatment with a second-generation ALK inhibitor after failure with a different second-generation ALK...
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