Sentences with phrase «against alk»
Kinases are also druggable targets, as seen by the success of kinase - inhibitors in earning FDA approval (including, for example, crizotinib against ALK - fusion and erlotinib against EGFR).
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«With immunotherapies, there were better outcomes for deeper responses, but it didn't break down the same way as with targeted treatment against ALK - positive cancer,» Doebele says.
Phase I / II clinical trial results reported at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 show promising results for investigational drug brigatinib against ALK + non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with 58 of 78 ALK + patients responding to treatment, including 50 of 70 patients who had progressed after previous treatment with crizotinib, the first licensed ALK inhibitor.