Investigational Agent Update: mTOR Inhibitor Therapy for NSCLC
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In a recent post I described a class of novel targeted treatments being studied in lung cancer as well as other treatment settings. These drugs inhibit mTOR, or the mammalian target of rapamycin, an immunosuppressant used to prevent rejection of organ transplants, but other drugs that inhibit this intracellular protein also have some anticancer effects.