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How are you approaching patients with Stage IV EGFR NSCLC who progress on first line TKI and are found to have retained EGFR mutation as well as MET amplification?

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Medical Oncology · University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center

The nuance here is how the MET amplification was detected and defined. Was it through an NGS platform (such as Guardant) or through FISH-based testing? If the latter, what was the MET gene copy number, and what was the ratio of MET/CEP7?

Nonetheless, assuming MET amplification is an accurate bypass s...

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Medical Oncology · Georgetown University Hospital

I think it is challenging to give a single answer here as there is a lot of heterogeneity here.

When MET amplification is driving EGFR TKI resistance, that can be overcome by the addition of a MET inhibitor. The INSIGHT 2 study (Tan et al., Journal of Clinical Oncology 2023) included patients with E...

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