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Clinical challenges in targeting anaplastic lymphoma kinase in advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology - 1 Sept 2014
Vijayvergia Namrata, Mehra Ranee
Abstract excerpt
The revolution in individualized therapy for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has seen the emergence of a number of molecularly targeted therapies for distinct patient molecular subgroups. Activating anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-gene rearrangement has been detected in 3-7 % of NSCLC cases, and the ALK inhibitor crizotinib is now an approved treatment for patients with tumors harboring...
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