Weight-based dosing of lenvatinib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Lenvatinib is an oral molecular target agent that blocks vascular endothelial growth factor receptors 1–3, fibroblast growth factor receptors 1–4, platelet-derived growth factor receptor α, RET , and KIT . It is noninferior, but not statistically superior, to sorafenib with regard to overall survival, according to the findings of a phase 3 trial of lenvatinib versus sorafenib as first-line therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (the...