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Yale Cancer Center is a collaboration between renowned cancer researchers and physicians at Yale University and Smilow Cancer Hospital.

New research from Dr. Sarah Goldberg shows combining Osimertinib + Gefitinib led to short-term benefits for some patients with EGFR-mutated advanced #NSCLC after resistance to osimertinib developed, underscoring the need for new treatment strategies. medicine.yale.edu/cancer/publi...

Osimertinib-Gefitinib Combo Shows Modest Benefits in EGFR NSCLC

This study investigates combining osimertinib and gefitinib in advanced lung cancer with EGFR C797S mutation, showing modest benefits but highlighting tumor

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A study by Drs. Jay Bader + Kiran Turaga shows importance of genetic testing in pleural #mesothelioma to improve prognostication + enrollment in #clinicaltrials for targeted therapies. Genetic mutations had less prognostic impact in peritoneal mesothelioma. medicine.yale.edu/cancer/publi...

Prognostic Role of NF2 and TERT Mutations in Mesothelioma

This study investigates the prognostic impact of somatic mutations in mesothelioma, showing NF2 truncating variants worsen survival, supporting genomic testing

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