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Alectinib versus crizotinib in patients with ALK-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (J-ALEX): an open-label, randomised phase 3 trial

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These results provide the first head-to-head comparison of alectinib and crizotinib and have the potential to change the standard of care for the first-line treatment of ALK-positive non-small-cell lung cancer.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 665 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alectinib & Crizotinib.

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The clinical and prognostic role of ALK in glioblastoma.

TL;DR: In this article, the correlation between ALK altered expression and prognosis in patients with glioblastoma (GBM) was investigated, where the authors performed an evaluation of ALK overexpression and structural/quantitative chromosome alterations through immune-histochemical assay (IHC with D5F3 antibody) and fluorescent in situ hybridization.
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Programmed cell death ligand 1 measurement study in granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-producing lung cancer: an observational study

TL;DR: A recent case of G-CSF-producing lung adenocarcinoma showed high expression of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) and was treated with pembrolizumab as first-line therapy, which was extremely effective as discussed by the authors .
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Evaluation of Lung Toxicity Related to the Treatment With Alectinib Using a Pharmacovigilance Database

TL;DR: Among the lung toxicity signs, interstitial lung disease had the highest ROR, suggesting a strong causal relationship with alectinib treatment.
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Multiple Genetic Alterations as Resistance Mechanism during Second-Line Lorlatinib for Advanced ALK-Rearranged Lung Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report

TL;DR: The case reported here highlights the importance of reassessing the biomolecular profile during the disease course, both by tissutal and liquid biopsy, with the aim of improving the knowledge of these resistance mechanisms, and so identifying new drugs or sequences able to optimize the management of these patients.
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Successful Treatment with Ensartinib After Alectinib-induced Hyperbilirubinemia in ALK-Positive NSCLC.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a case of a patient with NSCLC with an EML4-ALK fusion and was treated with alectinib but who developed grade 4 hyperbilirubinemia after five months on therapy.
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Identification of the transforming EML4–ALK fusion gene in non-small-cell lung cancer

TL;DR: It is shown that a small inversion within chromosome 2p results in the formation of a fusion gene comprising portions of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4) gene and the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells.
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First-line crizotinib versus chemotherapy in ALK-positive lung cancer

TL;DR: Crizotinib was superior to standard first-line pemetrexed-plus-platinum chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated advanced ALK-positive NSCLC and was associated with greater reduction in lung cancer symptoms and greater improvement in quality of life.
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