Controversies on Lung Cancer: Pros and Cons


Cons: should immunotherapy be incorporated in the treatment of oncogene-driven lung cancer?

Giulio Metro, Massimo Di Maio

Abstract

Targeted treatment with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) is associated with high response rates and significantly prolonged progression-free survival in the minority of patients (approximately 15–20%) with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumor harbors an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation, anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement or ROS1 rearrangement (1).

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