A Case of Adjuvant Brigatinib in a Patient with ALK-rearranged R0 Resected Oligometastatic Lung Cancer
ZAnaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement is detected at a low rate in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Patients with ALK rearrangements have poor responses to conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy.Brigatinib is one of the ALK-tyrosine kinase inhibitors recommended for first-line treatment in metastatic NSCLC.Local ablative therapies are applied in the treatment of oligometastatic disease in NSCLC.In this case, a patient with lung adenocarcinoma with ALK-rearranged isolated adrenal metastasis was treated with adjuvant brigatinib after sequential surgery.A 23-month disease-free survival was obtained.The case reported here represents the use of adjuvant therapy with ALK inhibitors in ALK-positive oligometastatic NSCLC in eligible patients.
Authors
- Abdullah İrfan Taştepe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2032-7444)
- Osman Yüksel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5972-4885)
- Ahmet Özet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8731-9636)
- Oktay Ünsal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3215-8457)
- Nalan Akyürek
Publication Details
- Journal
- Gazi Medical Journal
- Published
- 2025-10-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12996/gmj.2024.4074
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00