A rapid and durable response to cabozantinib in an osimertinib- resistant lung cancer patient with MET D1228N mutation: a case report

作者：Yukun Kuang, Jiyu Wang, Peihang Xu, Yifan Zheng, Lihong Bai, Xue Sun, Zimu Li, Run-Jing Gan, Huixia Li, Zunfu Ke, Kejing Tang · 发表于：Annals of Translational Medicine · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.21037/atm-21-3861 · 被引用次数：13 · 研究领域：Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations、Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies、Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Abstract: Osimertinib has efficacy superior to that of standard epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) for the first-line treatment of patients with EGFR-mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, patients treated with osimertinib eventually acquire drug resistance. MET missense mutations have been demonstrated to mediate resistance to MET-TKIs, such as crizotinib. But the role of MET missense mutations in mediating EGFR TKI resistance is undefined. With the increasing use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) at diagnosis, many mechanisms of acquired resistance have been discovered in patients with activated tyrosine kinase receptors. Herein, we report the first case of MET D1228N mutation mediating acquired resistance to osimertinib in a MET TKI-naïve NSCLC. The patient with advanced lung adenocarcinoma harboring EGFR exon 19 deletion initially responded to osimertinib with progression-free survival (PFS) lasting 11 months and then developed resistance with an acquired mutation of MET D1228N. Subsequently, combination therapy of cabozantinib and osimertinib was administrated to the patient, and her clinical symptoms were rapidly relieved within one week with good tolerance. She remained on the combined treatment for 10 months. Finally, she achieved an overall survival (OS) of 25 months. Based on our findings, patient with MET D1228N mutant lung adenocarcinoma clinically benefited from combinatorial therapy of cabozantinib a...