Molecular Testing of Lung Cancers

• Main Authors: Hyo Sup Shim (Author), Yoon-La Choi (Author), Lucia Kim (Author), Sunhee Chang (Author), Wan-Seop Kim (Author), Mee Sook Roh (Author), Tae-Jung Kim (Author), Seung Yeon Ha (Author), Jin-Haeng Chung (Author), Se Jin Jang (Author), Geon Kook Lee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pathologists & the Korean Society for Cytopathology, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Targeted therapies guided by molecular diagnostics have become a standard treatment of lung cancer. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangements are currently used as the best predictive biomarkers for EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors and ALK i...