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Would you trial a different TKI (vs chemotherapy) if a patient with metastatic EGFRm lung adenocarcinoma developed grade 4 pneumonitis on first line osimertinib?

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Medical Oncology · Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Presuming patient recovered from grade 4 pneumonitis, there is precedent to switching as reported by clinicians/investigators in Japan wherein EGFR TKI-induced ILD occurs with much greater frequency in this ethnic population compared to the West. As reported by Takeda et al (Japanese Journal of Clin...

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