Tomoko Funazo

Dr. Tomoko Funazo


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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 September 2017 in Journal of Thoracic Oncology
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TFTomoko Funazo
Tomoko Funazo
TNTakashi Nomizo
Takashi Nomizo
YKYoung Hak Kim
Young Hak Kim

1 January 2017 in Internal Medicine
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TFTomoko Funazo
Tomoko Funazo
KMKyohei Morita
Kyohei Morita
NINaoya Ikegami
Naoya Ikegami
CKChisato Konishi
Chisato Konishi
SNSatoshi Nakao
Satoshi Nakao
YNYasuo Nishizaka
Yasuo Nishizaka
Choroidal metastasis is rare in cancer patients and it may cause visual disturbances that reduce their quality of life. In non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), targeted therapy against actionable driver mutations has gradually replaced radiotherapy as the treatment of choice for choroidal metastasis. Recently, there have been several case reports of choroidal metastasis in patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged NSCLC. We herein report the case of a 40-year-old Japanese woman diagnosed with choroidal metastasis of an ALK-rearranged NSCLC who received alectinib as the first-line chemotherapy. Alectinib may be the best treatment for choroidal metastasis in patients harboring an ALK translocation because of its favorable side effect profile involving visual disturbances.