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In this interactive patient case study developed by medical experts, you'll meet a patient with TRK fusion-positive lung cancer at initial diagnosis and then again at disease progression two years later.

As you learn about the potential clinical management and treatment options, you'll get the chance to make clinical decisions and see how they impact the patient's trajectory.

 

 

Clinical Takeaways

 

  • Next generation sequencing is the main testing method to identify NTRK fusions. If immunohistochemistry is used as a screening method, all positive findings need to be confirmed with next generation sequencing

  • Based on robust efficacy data, larotrectinib and entrectinib are two approved first-generation TRK inhibitors. Dosing recommendations should be followed to manage the known adverse events

  • First-generation TRK inhibitors may lead to acquired mechanisms of resistance: 1) on-target: through the development of NTRK gene mutations or 2) off-target: through the other genomic alterations, including BRAFp. V6OOE mutation, KRASp. G12D mutation, and MET amplification

 

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Fernando Lopez-Rios is the Chief of the Molecular Diagnostics Service at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre (Madrid) and Professor of Pathology at Universidad Complutense (Madrid).

 

Dr Lopez-Rios has also been the Director of the Therapeutic Targets Laboratory at HM Hospitales (Spain) and a visiting researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

 

He is the 2023 recipient of the Mary J. Matthews Pathology & Transitional Research Award (International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, IASLC) and the Deputy Chair of the IASLC Pathology Committee.

 

His main clinical and research expertise is in cancer biomarker testing.

Prof. Fernando López-Ríos, MD, PhD has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:

AstraZeneca, Bayer, BMS, Lilly, MSD, Pfizer, Roche, Takeda and Thermo Fisher. 

 

Prof. Mark Socinski is a Medical Oncologist and Executive Medical Director of the AdventHealth Cancer Institute, Orlando, Florida. Specialises in all thoracic malignancies, including small cell and non-small cell lung cancers and mesothelioma. An internationally recognised expert in the development of novel chemotherapy agents and treatment strategies for advanced non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. Research has focused on incorporating personalised medicine and molecular biomarkers in the treatment of lung cancer. Formerly Co-Chair of the Thoracic Malignancies Steering Committee for the National Cancer Institute and served on the Respiratory Core Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (Alliance). Tenured Professor at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pittsburgh.

Prof. Mark Socinski has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:

AstraZeneca, BMS, Eli Lilly, Genentech, GI Therapeutics, Guardant, Janssen, Jazz, Merck, Novartis.

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