EGFR mutations can be reliably detected in plasma DNA of patients with stages IIIB to IV NSCLC and can be used as a biomarker to predict tumor response to TKIs.

Background: Patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-rearranged (ALK+) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with crizotinib inevitably relapse, with brain as common site of progression. Patients and methods: ASCEND-6, a phase 1/2, single-arm study, included adult Chinese patients with stage IIIB or IV ALK+ NSCLC pretreated with crizotinib as the last therapy (irrespective of prior chemotherapies [≤2]). Primary endpoints were pharmacokinetics (PK), safety, and tolerability. Key secondary endpoint was overall response rate (ORR; investigator assessed). Results: Of the 103 enrolled patients, all received prior crizotinib, 70 % received ≥1 prior chemotherapy regimen, and 63.1 % had brain metastases at baseline. In the phase 1 component, 20 patients completed a 5-day PK run-in period. Median T max (n = 16) was ~6 h; geometric means of AUC 0-24 h (n = 16) and C max (n = 16) at steady state were 22,000 ng*h/mL and 1080 ng/mL, respectively. In the final analysis, median follow-up time was 34 months (range: 27.8-40.6). The ORR was 41.7 % (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 32.1-51.9), and median progressionfree survival was 7.2 months (95 % CI: 4.1-7.5). Median overall survival was 17.5 months (95 %

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