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Gynecologic Cancers • Thoracic Malignancies • Medical Oncology • NCI-CCC Tumor Board Question • Ohio State University
Is it safe and/or necessary to combine osimertinib and carboplatin/paclixel for a patient with stage IV EGFR mutated NSCLC and advanced ovarian carcinoma?
Certainly ovarian cancer will respond to carboplatin and paclitaxel and it sounds like a reasonable chemotherapy to give to a stage IV NSCLC, however if the NSCLC is not responding but the ovarian cancer is, combining chemotherapy with TKI is not addressed in the guidelines.
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a tough situation and a lot depends on the status and urgency of the ovarian cancer and whether surgery is planned for it. I would not combine the chemotherapy and osimertinib simultaneously for sure. There are several studies that show the combination of chemo and TKI is not as good as TKI ...
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