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  • More Than a Partnership: How Oncogene-Driven Patient Groups Are Mobilizing the Global Community to Drive
            Research

    More Than a Partnership: How Oncogene-Driven Patient Groups Are Mobilizing the Global Community to Drive Research

    By

    Upal Basu Roy
    Patient Advocacy & Survivorship

    It has been just over a year since we reported how oncogene-driven patient advocacy groups are disrupting the research paradigm in lung cancer.1 We have indeed come a long way since the discovery of the first EGFR mutation in lung cancer in 2004.2 ,3 Even amid the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the lung…


  • Broad Molecular Testing in Lung Cancer: The Struggle to Translate Recommendations to Clinical Practice

    Broad Molecular Testing in Lung Cancer: The Struggle to Translate Recommendations to Clinical Practice

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    Evolving Standards of Care

    By Kara Nyberg, PhD Posted: June 24, 2020 Over the past decade, lung cancer has emerged as a shining example of how precision medicine can dramatically improve patient outcomes. Up to 85% of patients with lung cancer harbor potentially actionable driver mutations, and matching targeted therapy to druggable alterations in the first-line setting prolongs survival…


  • Lung Cancer Leading the Charge for Tumor-Agnostic Targeted Therapies

    Lung Cancer Leading the Charge for Tumor-Agnostic Targeted Therapies

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    Evolving Standards of Care

    By Robert C. Doebele, MD, PhD Posted: December 11, 2019 Dr. Robert C. Doebele Early in the drug development of targeted therapies, specific oncogene mutations were often associated with a single disease: HER2 gene amplification with breast cancer, BCR-ABL fusions with chronic myelogenous leukemia, EGFR mutations with lung cancer, and BRAF mutations with melanoma. Thus,…