Case Report in Journal of Thoracic Oncology Demonstrates the Clinical Utility of Biocept's Liquid Biopsy Test for Patient Diagnosed with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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"The letter to the editor represents another important case study in which our Target Selector™ liquid biopsy platform has demonstrated the ability to inform physicians on the molecular information driving a patient's cancer, so that optimum therapy can be selected for treatment," said
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The ROS1 gene is structurally similar to ALK, and ROS1 gene rearrangements are found in 1–2% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases. Pre-clinical and early clinical evidence suggest that tumors associated with a ROS1 rearrangement may be sensitive to dual ALK/MET inhibitors. The small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor, crizotinib (Xalkori®), was approved for the treatment of patients with metastatic NSCLC whose tumors are ROS1-positive.
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