This study investigated the incidence of cardiac dysfunction in patients with advanced or recurrent epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutant non-small cell lung cancer treated with EGFR- tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
Erlotinib, dacomitinib, afatinib, and osimertinib, with dose according to NCCN guide line.
Erlotinib, dacomitinib, afatinib, and osimertinib, with dose according to NCCN guide line
Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Taichung, Taiwan
The incidence of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction after treatment with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction was defined as a left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 50% and an absolute reduction in LVEF of more than 10% from baseline.
Time frame: From enrollment to 2 years after initiating EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment.
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