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How are you using liquid biopsy in the routine management of your patients with metastatic NSCLC?

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Medical Oncology · Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center

The dramatic improvement in the prognosis of metastatic NSCLC patients harboring targetable oncogenic genetic alterations with highly effective therapy has underscored the need for tumor molecular profiling. There have been numerous studies in the past decade assessing the performance of ctDNA (here...

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Medical Oncology · University of California Los Angeles

Circulating tumor DNA testing has quickly become an important part of my algorithms. At initial diagnosis, if the diagnostic specimen is cytologic, or a bone specimen (which often give indeterminate or false negative mutation results), or has been exhausted, ctDNA is a reasonable approach which can ...

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