Gene testing identifies lung cancer patients who benefit from ALK-inhibitor drug
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 01:35
in Health & Medicine
Results of a new study in non-small cell lung cancer showed that patients with specific oncogenic rearrangements of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene within the short arm of chromosome 2 of their tumors had a much greater response to a new therapy - an ALK-inhibitor.