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Rapid and dramatic response to alectinib in an anaplastic lymphoma kinase rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer patient who is critically ill.

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Anticancer Drugs2016PMID 26938871stubpubmedProvenance
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CIViC — Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer
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CIViC evidence items
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CuratedShowing 1–1 of 1 evidence items · levels, directions and significance as curated at the source; each row links to its CIViC record.
TherapyCancerTypeLevelDirection · significanceRating (1–5)StatusEvidenceSource
ALK Fusion1
AlectinibLung Non-Small Cell CarcinomaCURATED_BROADERPredictiveCSupports Sensitivity Response3accepted
EID1273

In this case study of a critically ill 29 year old male nonsmoker with advanced metastatic ALK-positive NSCLC, alectinib (CH5424802), was administered as first line treatment. Where most clinical tria… (full text at CIViC)

PMID 26938871 · Yoshida et al., 2016 · Open in CIViC

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