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  • 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,…