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Identification of I1171N resistance mutation in ALK-positive non-small-cell lung cancer tumor sample and circulating tumor DNA.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Sept 2016
Johnson Alison C, Dô Pascal, Richard Nicolas, Dubos Catherine, Michels Jean Jacques, Bonneau Jessica, Gervais Radj
Abstract excerpt
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is sensitive to ALK inhibitor therapy, but resistance invariably develops and can be mediated by certain secondary mutations. The detection of these mutations is useful to guide treatment decisions, but tumors are not always easily accessible to re-biopsy. We report the case of a patient with ALK-rearranged NSCLC who presented acquired...
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