• Caiwen Huang, Qihua Zou, Hui Liu, Bo Qiu, Qiwen Li, Yongbin Lin, and Ying Liang.
• Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, China.
• Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2020 Apr 18; 21 (4): 33.

Opinion StatementThe MET exon 14 skipping mutation is found in approximately 3% of lung adenocarcinomas and slightly more than 2% of lung squamous cell carcinomas. In recent years, more and more evidence has shown that MET inhibitors have achieved good anti-tumor effect in patients with MET exon 14 skipping mutation, suggesting that MET exon 14 skipping mutation may be a new target for NSCLC patients. Patients with positive MET exon 14 skipping mutation are recommended to be administered MET inhibitors, and crizotinib is recommended by the NCCN guideline. Due to the presence of gene amplification, second site mutation, bypass activation, and pathological type transformation, one of the inevitable problems of targeted therapy is drug resistance. If type I MET inhibitors (crizotinib, capmatinib, tepotinib, savolitinib) drug resistance is developed, type II MET inhibitors (cabozantinib, glesatinib, merestinib) can be considered.

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