Gene testing identifies lung cancer patients who benefit from ALK-inhibitor drug

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 08:07 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 tumours had a much greater response to a new therapy - an ALK-inhibitor...

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