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Safety and effectiveness of pirfenidone combined with carboplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and non-small cell lung cancer: A retrospective cohort study.

Yuji YamamotoYukihiro YanoTomoki KugeFukuko OkabeMikako IshijimaTakeshi UenamiMasaki KanazuYuki AkazawaToshihiko YamaguchiMasahide Mori
Published in: Thoracic cancer (2020)
SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS OF THE STUDY: No patients with IPF and NSCLC who received pirfenidone in combination with first-line carboplatin-based chemotherapy or late-line ICIs developed acute IPF exacerbations. What this study adds Pirfenidone might have a prophylactic effect against chemotherapy-associated AE-IPF.
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