Thoracic Oncology Service, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, 300 East 66th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2013 Oct;10(10):551-2. doi: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.154. Epub 2013 Aug 20.
On 15 July 2013, the FDA approved afatinib as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer whose tumours harbour exon 19 deletions or exon 21 (L858R) substitution mutations. We discuss three recent studies investigating afatinib in this molecular subset of patients.
2013 年 7 月 15 日,FDA 批准 afatinib 作为转移性非小细胞肺癌患者的一线治疗药物,这些患者的肿瘤具有外显子 19 缺失或外显子 21(L858R)取代突变。我们讨论了三项最近研究 afatinib 在这一分子亚组患者中的应用。