National Working Group Meeting on ALK Diagnostics in Lung Cancer

Wendy Cooper, Stephen Fox, Sandra O'Toole, Adrienne Morey, Glenn Frances, Nick Pavlakis, Kenneth O'Byrne, Andrew Dettrick, Trishe Leong, Vivek Rathi, Dominic Spagnolo, Chris Hemmings, Mahendra Singh, David Moffat, Ming-Sound Tsao, Keith Wilner, Richard Buller, Susan Pitman Lowenthal, Shams Arifeen, Justin BinkoMahmood Alam

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    Abstract

    The global landscape of molecular testing is rapidly changing, with the recent publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)/College of American Pathologists (CAP) guidelines and the ALK Atlas. The IASLC/CAP guidelines recommend that tumors from patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) be tested for ALK rearrangements in addition to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. The spur for this recommendation is the availability of novel therapies that target these rearrangements. This article is based on coverage of a Pfizer-sponsored National Working Group Meeting on ALK Diagnostics in Lung Cancer, held around the 15th World Lung Cancer Conference, in Sydney on October 31, 2013. It is based on the presentations given by the authors at the meeting and the discussion that ensued. The content for this article was discussed and agreed on by the authors.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)11-17
    Number of pages7
    JournalAsia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology
    Volume10
    Issue numberSuppl. 2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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