Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Targeted therapy boosts lung cancer outcomes

Thousands of patients with an advanced form of lung cancer that carries a specific dysfunctional gene are likely to fare better if treated with a targeted therapy than with traditional chemotherapy, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers and a team of international collaborators. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Shaw AT, et al. Crizotinib versus Chemotherapy in Advanced ALK-Positive Lung Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2013 Jun 1. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23724913

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