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Carcinomatosis under control by osimertinib in EGFR and TP53 mutated lung adenocarcinoma.
Tumori - 1 Dec 2021
Provenzano Leonardo, Cuccarini Valeria, Platania Marco, Canziani Luca, Spagnoletti Andrea, Doniselli Fabio M, Eoli Marica, Prelaj Arsela, Anghileri Elena
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INTRODUCTION: Approximately 25%-30% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) develop central nervous system (CNS) metastases during the course of the disease; this percentage is higher in patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. Leptomeningeal metastases, infrequent in the advanced setting, have a particularly dismal prognosis. Osimertinib, a third-generation EGFR inhibitor, can...
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