Oligoprogression in NSCLC with Other Actionable Oncogenic Drivers Beyond EGFR and ALK: An Emerging Entity

Oligoprogressive disease (OPD) in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a clinical entity with peculiar behavior and treatment. OPD patients, during systemic therapy, may receive local ablative treatment (LAT) with survival benefit. The importance of OPD and the role of LAT has been comprehensively assessed in the setting of EGFR mutant and ALK-rearranged NSCLC during tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment, but it is still almost unexplored in the context of NSCLC harboring actionable oncogenic drivers other than EGFR and ALK. The aim of our review is to collect and discuss the available data about standard treatment in this latter setting, with special consideration given to the role of LAT in case of OPD in systemic treatment. Through a comprehensive PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov search, we identified the available data and ongoing clinical trials addressing these aims. To date, only limited evidence supports the use of LAT in OPD involving NSCLC driven by these molecular alterations, mainly deriving from case reports and retrospective series. This highlights an unmet clinical need that warrants systematic and multicentric data collection to generate more robust evidence.

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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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2026-03-13
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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms27062643
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Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
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Abstract

Oligoprogressive disease (OPD) in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a clinical entity with peculiar behavior and treatment. OPD patients, during systemic therapy, may receive local ablative treatment (LAT) with survival benefit. The importance of OPD and the role of LAT has been comprehensively assessed in the setting of EGFR mutant and ALK-rearranged NSCLC during tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment, but it is still almost unexplored in the context of NSCLC harboring actionable oncogenic drivers other than EGFR and ALK. The aim of our review is to collect and discuss the available data about standard treatment in this latter setting, with special consideration given to the role of LAT in case of OPD in systemic treatment. Through a comprehensive PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov search, we identified the available data and ongoing clinical trials addressing these aims. To date, only limited evidence supports the use of LAT in OPD involving NSCLC driven by these molecular alterations, mainly deriving from case reports and retrospective series. This highlights an unmet clinical need that warrants systematic and multicentric data collection to generate more robust evidence.

International Journal of Molecular SciencesVol. 27(6)
University of Verona (IT), University of Parma (IT)
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro
Good health and well-being
Openalex Percentile: Top 23%
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