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Ranee Mehra, MD, and colleagues detail treatment updates across lung cancer subtypes, including navigating the array of available ALK inhibitors in NSCLC. ....
Researchers at Boston Children s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have explored the possibility of using anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) as a target for the application of ALK.CAR T cells to treat neuroblastoma, the most common and deadliest tumor of infancy. ....
Interim findings from the ALINA trial show improved DFS with alectinib in the adjuvant setting vs chemotherapy in resected stage IB-IIIA NSCLC. But will early DFS results extend to overall survival? ....
Mar 4, 2021 10:54am The FDA has expanded Pfizer s Lorbrena approval to include front-line ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer. Pfizer’s Lorbrena has finally broken into front-line non-small cell lung cancer, where Novartis, Roche and Takeda are already jockeying for a niche market. The FDA expanded Lorbrena’s use into newly diagnosed patients with ALK-positive NSCLC, Pfizer said Wednesday. With that front-line nod, the agency converted Lorbrena s conditional green light for previously treated cases into a full approval. How does Pfizer expect to compete in such a crowded field? As a third-generation ALK inhibitor, Lorbrena has arguably the best efficacy data in head-to-head tests against its predecessor, Xalkori. ....