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'Liquid biopsy' may help earlier detection of lung cancer treatment resistance

AACR 2015

18 - 22 Apr 2015

Published: 13 May 2015

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Dr Jonas Nilsson - Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Dr Nilsson talks to ecancertv at AACR 2015 about the development of a blood test which regularly monitors for the presence of the rearrangement of the EML4-ALK gene fusion in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), helping clinicians predict the outcome of treatment with crizotinib.

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