Molecular Testing Guideline for Selection of Lung Cancer Patients for EGFR and ALK Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors

The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics - Tập 15 Số 4 - Trang 415-453 - 2013
Neal I. Lindeman1, Philip T. Cagle, Mary Beth Beasley, Dhananjay Chitale, Sanja Đačić, Giuseppe Giaccone, Robert B. Jenkins, David J. Kwiatkowski, Juan‐Sebastian Saldivar, Jeremy A. Squire, Erik Thunnissen, Marc Ladanyi, NULL AUTHOR_ID
1Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115-6110, USA. [email protected]

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