The Most Important Advances in Precision Medicine Being Presented at ASCO 2018

David Spigel, MD

Dr David Spigel reviews 3 of the most important, practice-changing topics at ASCO 2018: new therapies targeting RET in a number of tumor types, a prognostic biomarker assay to predict whether patients with breast cancer will need adjuvant hormonal therapy or chemotherapy, and the minimum level of PD-L1 positivity required to predict outcomes with immunotherapy in lung cancer.

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