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Would you consider patritumab deruxtecan on clinical trial instead of chemotherapy for patients with EGFR+ lung cancer progressive on osimertinib?

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Medical Oncology · The Ohio State University School of Medicine

Patritumab deruxtecan has shown promising activity in patients with sensitizing EGFR mutations who have had disease progression on osimertinib or other TKI. A phase 1 trial was recently published showing a response rate of 39% in patients who had progressed on prior TKI and a median progression-free...

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Medical Oncology · Mary Lanning Healthcare Morrison Cancer Center/University of Nebraska Medical Center Adjunct Faculty

After progression on EGFR-TKIs, salvage therapy in EGFR-mutant NSCLC has limited benefit due to diverse and heterogeneous resistance mechanisms. Osimertinib resistance can be due to on-target resistance, due to upregulation of bypass signaling pathways, or due to histologic transformations. (Piper-V...

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