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Tepotinib Improves Prognosis in an Elderly Patient with Poor Performance Status and MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutation-positive Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.
The Tokai journal of experimental and clinical medicine - 20 Apr 2022
Tanaka Arihito, Kashizaki Fumihiro, Sugimoto Shunsuke, Hattori Shigeaki, Yazaki Natsumi, Obayashi Syohei, Kitahara Asako, Asano Koichiro
Abstract excerpt
Several target therapies for driver gene mutations related with lung cancer growth are clinically effective in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Gefitinib and alectinib have been reported as being effective and safe even in those with poor performance status (PS), but little is known about efficacy and tolerability of other TKIs. An 84-year-old man was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer...
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