Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5525705 | Cancer Letters | 2017 | 4 Pages |
â¢Drug resistance develops rapidly with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.â¢Acquired mutations have been found to mediate the resistance.â¢New small molecule inhibitors targeting these new mutations are being developed.â¢This minireview summarizes the latest development in searching for a novel agent as the fourth generation inhibitor for EGFR.
The third-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), AZD9291 (osimertinib) and CO-1686 (rociletinib) of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are highly active against T790M positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, resistance develops rapidly. EGFR C797S mutation was reported to be a leading mechanism of resistance to the third-generation inhibitors. The C797S mutation appears to be an ideal target for overcoming the acquired resistance to the third-generation inhibitors. This review summarizes the latest development on the discovery of a fourth-generation EGFR TKI, EAI045.3.