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How would you manage a patient with EGFR mutant adenocarcinoma of the lung on erlotinib with a single site of disease progression, but otherwise well-controlled disease?

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Medical Oncology · University of North Carolina School of Medicine

This is a point of controversy. There are multiple reasonable options to consider for such a patient:

  1. Keep going with tarceva and follow the lesion carefully. The NCCN guidelines actually acknowledge this approach for asymptomatic disease.
  2. Use SRS or some other locally ablative approach to destro...

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