PMID- 29174221 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190408 LR - 20191210 IS - 1938-0690 (Electronic) IS - 1525-7304 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 2 DP - 2018 Mar TI - Lung Toxicity in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Exposed to ALK Inhibitors: Report of a Peculiar Case and Systematic Review of the Literature. PG - e151-e161 LID - S1525-7304(17)30302-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.10.008 [doi] AB - Lung toxicity is a potential fatal effect involving non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients exposed to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Moving from our experience regarding a patient who developed lung toxicity while receiving 2 different anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-TKIs, we performed a systematic review to assess the epidemiologic magnitude and the clinical significance of such toxicity in NSCLC patients treated with ALK-TKIs. Studies were identified using MEDLINE and additional sources (European Society for Medical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and World Conference on Lung Cancer abstracts) in agreement with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses and Cochrane guidelines. Lung toxicity was reported in 105 of 4943 NSCLC patients (2.1%). Crizotinib was responsible for pulmonary adverse events (AEs) in 1.8% of exposed patients (49 of 2706). With the limit of a lower number of treated patients (n = 359), brigatinib resulted as the most frequently involved in lung toxicity (7%; n = 25). Pulmonary AEs during therapy with ceritinib, alectinib, and lorlatinib occurred in 1.1%, 2.6%, and 1.8% of the patients, respectively. Sixty-five percent of cases accounted for Grade 3 or 4 events, with a mortality rate of 9%. Radiological patterns of pneumonia were reported in 25 patients, whereas imaging evocative of interstitial lung disease in 37. Overall, 26 of 105 patients (25%) permanently discontinued treatment because of lung toxicity. Lung toxicity is a rare albeit potentially severe side effect in NSCLC patients receiving ALK-TKIs, apparently more frequent with brigatinib. Its early recognition and treatment are crucial for the best outcome of this subgroup of patients, whose overall prognosis is being improved by the availability of several targeted agents. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Pellegrino, Benedetta AU - Pellegrino B AD - Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. FAU - Facchinetti, Francesco AU - Facchinetti F AD - Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. Electronic address: francescofacchinetti2@gmail.com. FAU - Bordi, Paola AU - Bordi P AD - Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. FAU - Silva, Mario AU - Silva M AD - Radiology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. FAU - Gnetti, Letizia AU - Gnetti L AD - Pathology Section, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. FAU - Tiseo, Marcello AU - Tiseo M AD - Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. LA - eng PT - Case Reports PT - Journal Article PT - Systematic Review DEP - 20171028 PL - United States TA - Clin Lung Cancer JT - Clinical lung cancer JID - 100893225 RN - 0 (Organophosphorus Compounds) RN - 0 (Protein Kinase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Pyrimidines) RN - 53AH36668S (Crizotinib) RN - 9842X06Q6M (Betamethasone) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase) RN - HYW8DB273J (brigatinib) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase/antagonists & inhibitors MH - Betamethasone/administration & dosage MH - Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/*drug therapy/epidemiology/mortality MH - Crizotinib/adverse effects/therapeutic use MH - Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions/*epidemiology/mortality MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Italy/epidemiology MH - Lung Diseases, Interstitial/*epidemiology/etiology/mortality MH - Lung Neoplasms/*drug therapy/epidemiology/etiology/mortality MH - Organophosphorus Compounds/adverse effects/therapeutic use MH - Pneumonia/*epidemiology/etiology/mortality MH - Protein Kinase Inhibitors/adverse effects/pharmacology/*therapeutic use MH - Pyrimidines/adverse effects/therapeutic use MH - Survival Analysis MH - Withholding Treatment/statistics & numerical data OTO - NOTNLM OT - ALK inhibitors OT - Interstitial lung disease OT - NSCLC OT - Pneumonia OT - Toxicity EDAT- 2017/11/28 06:00 MHDA- 2019/04/09 06:00 CRDT- 2017/11/28 06:00 PHST- 2017/07/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/10/10 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/10/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/11/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/04/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/11/28 06:00 [entrez] AID - S1525-7304(17)30302-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.10.008 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Clin Lung Cancer. 2018 Mar;19(2):e151-e161. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.10.008. Epub 2017 Oct 28.