LAROTRECTINIB vs LORLATINIB

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Hi everyone. I was the one who posted earlier this week asking about port experiences and doing chemo 5 days in a row. I met with my oncologist yesterday and literally everything has changed. They completed a gene fusion test on my tumor and I'm the first person with this type of presentation of ca

Hello everyone, I was a relatively healthy 33 year old until around 4 months ago when we received the news most people dread. I feel it’s very important to share my story as unfortunately, I help account for the very rare 1% of thyroid cancers and have had a relatively rough route to diagnosis and

Has anybody had experience with this drug? They are taking me off lenvima in favor of this as the lenvima hasn’t shrunk the tumor much and I have the mutation this targets.

Hi everyone! I just read about **Vitrakvi,** has anyone has experience with it? I've been actively looking for treatments for the daughter of a friend of my father. Each time I think about that we are the same age and she has struggled with cancer almost her entire life, I just wish I could help h

Hey everyone, Long story short: I’m 27 and was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer ALK positive. It’s not curable, so I’ll be living with this for the rest of my life. I’m currently being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and I’ll need to stay on a very specific (and very expensive) targe

HEADS UP THIS IS A LONG ONE!!! The past two years I’ve (27F) been dealing with severe breathing / wheezing problems. My PCP thought it was asthma, I was handed a pump and some montelukast. It continued and continued but I got used to it at a certain point and believed my doctor that it was just asth

Hello everyone, I’m writing as both a pulmonologist and a son. My mother has ALK-positive lung cancer, diagnosed in 2021. She has been on lorlatinib (Lorviqua) since March 2023, currently 50 mg daily, with an excellent and durable response, including complete response on recent scans. We are unfortu

I am a care partner for a 32 yr old Male who was just diagnosed with stage 4 NSCLC. Mets to liver, brain, bones (hip/spine) and lymph nodes. He got his ALK + diagnosis today and it was the first piece of ‘good news’ in weeks. His doctor has given him the option or Lorlatinib or a clinical study wher

A renowned oncologist specializing in targeted therapy and genetic treatment is now advising us to start **Lorlatinib** instead of **Lynparza** to treat my mom's (64F) pancreatic cancer with liver mets. Opposing what our current oncologist has advised us to do after we stopped chemo due to high bili

My dad has (60M) Stage IV NSCLC ALK+. Currently on Lorlatinib. It was effective for a bit but recent scans showed that the metastasized spots grew. Now, what are the alternative/ possible treatments to get it back under control? If anyone has any experience or thoughts, I would be very interested t