Management of Treatment Resistance in Patients With Advanced Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Mutated Lung Cancer: Personalization, Parsimony, and Partnership.

Journal Journal of Clinical OncologyPatients with ()-mutated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer represent a distinct subgroup of individuals who can experience initially tolerable and durable effects with first-line EGFR-directed tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Unfortunately, acquired treatment resistance and cancer progression within the CNS are inevitable during the disease course and present a challenging transition in the care continuum. Next-line therapies generally require combinations of drugs and afford nuanced differences in clinical outcomes relative to the treatment experience, toxicity profile, and quality of life. Therapeutic stratification and modulation thus require further personalization and partnership with patients to identify key clinical, molecular, and human-specific factors to best guide optimal care.