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SUBMITTER: Ota T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6794186 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ota Takayo T Masuda Noriyuki N Matsui Kaoru K Yamada Takao T Tanaka Noriko N Fujimoto Shunsuke S Fukuoka Masahiro M
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 20190607 18
Crizotinib has been approved for patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma harboring rearrangements of the c-ROS-1 (ROS1) and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) genes. We report a patient with ROS1-rearranged lung adenocarcinoma who developed a crizotinib-induced mixed/cholestatic type of liver injury. The patient discontinued crizotinib after 34 days due to liver toxicity. Twenty-four days later, when transaminases and C reactive protein (CRP) were normalized, crizotinib was resumed using an ora ...[more]