MET-TARGETED THERAPY | Clinical

March 28, 2022

Treatment options have expanded widely for patients with multiple myeloma over the past several years, resulting in significantly improved outcomes for these patients.

January 31, 2021

In the phase 3 VISION study, treatment with the MET inhibitor, tepotinib showed durable clinical activity as treatment of patients with MET exon 14 skipping non‒small cell lung cancer.

January 28, 2021

Patients with EGFR-mutant, MET-amplified or -overexpressed non–small cell lung cancer and MET resistance treated with osimertinib in combination with savolitinib may be able to overcome resistance, according to final analysis findings.

December 21, 2020

Roman Perez-Soler, MD, discusses the use of MET inhibitors as treatment of patients with lung cancer and the evolving role of targeted therapy in the lung cancer setting.

December 09, 2020

Identification of key oncogenic drivers and the development of targeted therapies with clinical activity in patients harboring actionable mutations have revolutionized the treatment paradigm in non–small cell lung cancer, redirecting attention toward advances in biomarker testing methodologies.

December 01, 2020

The MET inhibitor TPX-0022 was safe and well tolerated in a phase 1 dose-escalation study, SHIELD-1, involving patients with advanced solid tumors harboring MET alterations, according to results presented during the 32nd Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Symposium.

November 25, 2020

Roman Perez-Soler, MD, discusses how MET mutations have evolved and impacted the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

November 03, 2020

During a Targeted Oncology Case Based Peer Perspective event, John V. Heymach, MD, PhD, discussed the testing methods for non–small cell lung cancer with MET exon 14 skipping mutations. The discussion was based on the case of a 48-year-old woman.

October 29, 2020

While the remarkable activity of crizotinib as treatment of patients with ROS1 fusion-positive advanced non–small cell lung cancer was confirmed in a recent systemic review and meta-analysis, the efficacy of this small molecular inhibitor remains unknown in patients with MET-altered disease.

August 25, 2020

The FDA accepted a New Drug Application for tepotinib and granted it priority review for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who harbor a mutation that leads to mesenchymal-epithelial transition exon 14 skipping, as detected by an FDA-approved test.