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Amivantamab in Combination with Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Patients with Locally Advanced, Unresectable, or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Harboring ALK, ROS1, and RET Gene Fusions

Trial Status: active

This phase Ib/II trial studies the side effects and best dose of amivantamab when given together with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) and to see how well it works in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread to nearby tissue or lymph nodes (locally advanced), that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) or has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic). The treatment of ALK, ROS1, and RET positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has evolved over the last decade and patients harboring these gene fusions demonstrate dramatic and sustained responses to TKI therapy. Despite these important advances, acquired drug resistance remains inevitable and there is currently no approved treatment regimens for resistance. In many of these cases, increased activation of the ERBB or cMet pathways appears to be a bypass signaling mechanism that allows these cancer cells to circumvent the selective pressure from TKIs. Recent data have suggested that these pathways compensate for each other in situations where one pathway is inhibited, leading to “kinase switch” drug resistance. Amivantamab, a bispecific EGFR-MET antibody, has shown synergistic (acting together) inhibition of tumor growth when combined with EGFR TKIs. An antibody is a protein made by the immune system to help fight infections and other harmful processes, cells, or molecules. Giving amivantamab with TKIs may improve overall effectiveness by limiting the compensatory pathway activation and kill more cancer cells in patients with locally advanced, unresectable or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.