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. 2024 Dec 31;17(9):13197–13220. doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c16840

Table 2. Currently Approved Small Molecules and Immunotherapeutic Agents for the Treatment of Different Types of Lung Cancer.

mechanism of action agent type of lung cancer references
EGFR inhibitor Erlotinib Advanced EGFR mutation-positive NSCLC (77,78)
Gefitinib Advanced NSCLC patients harboring activating EGFR mutations (79,80)
Cetuximab Advanced NSCLC (81)
Osimertinib NSCLC harboring a common EGFR mutation (82,83)
Necitumumab Advanced squamous nonsmall-cell lung cancer (84,85)
Dacomitinib Patients with advanced EGFR mutation-positive nonsmall-cell lung cancer (86,87)
EGFR/HER2 inhibitor Afatinib First-line therapy of EGFR mutant NSCLC patients and metastatic NSCLC whose tumors have nonresistant EGFR (8890)
ALK/ROS1 inhibitor Crizotinib Advanced ALK-positive NSCLC and patients with ROS1-rearranged advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (14,91,92)
Lorlatinib Patients with ALK-positive advanced NSCLC and ROS1-positive advanced/metastatic NSCLC (62,92)
ALK inhibitor Ceritinib Advanced ALK-rearranged NSCLC (93,94)
Alectinib Patients with ALK-positive advanced/metastatic NSCLC (95,96)
Brigatinib Patients with ALK-positive advanced/metastatic NSCLC (97,98)
VEGF-A inhibitor Bevacizumab Patients with unresectable or metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC (99,100)
Ramucirumab Patients with NSCLC with disease progression or after platinum-based chemotherapy (101,102)
VEGFR/FGFR/PDGFR inhibitor Nintedanib Advanced NSCLC (103,104)
mTOR inhibitor Everolimus Advanced NSCLC (105,106)
BRAF inhibitor Dabrafenib NSCLC harboring BRAF mutation (107,108)
MEK inhibitor Trametinib NSCLC harboring KRAS mutation (109,110)
PD-1 inhibitor Nivolumab Advanced squamous and nonsquamous NSCLC with progression or after platinum-based chemotherapy and patients with recurrent SCLC (111113)
Pembrolizumab Advanced squamous and nonsquamous NSCLC with progression or after platinum-based chemotherapy (112,114,115)
PD-L1 inhibitor Atezolizumab Metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC and PD-L1-positive NSCLC that progressed during or after standard treatments (112,116,117)
Durvalumab Locally advanced NSCLC (112,118)