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Podcast: PeerView Heart, Lung & Blood CME/CNE/CPE Audio Podcast
Episode: Alexander Drilon, MD - Uncovering Gene Fusions and Other Key Genomic Alterations in Lung, Thyroid, Colon, Breast, and Other Solid Tumors to Enable All Patients to Gain the Full Benefits of Targeted Treatment
Description: Go online to PeerView.com/PUE860 to view the activity, download slides and practice aids, and complete the post-test to earn credit. Gene fusions and other key alterations (NTRK, RET, and others) represent actionable targets in a substantial proportion of patients with solid tumors. Appropriate biomarker testing is crucial to identify all alterations that are treatable with current or investigational targeted therapies. Multikinase tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have been used to treat such alterations, but they have limited efficacy. Therefore, next-generation TKIs with greater selectivity have been developed and approved for tumor-agnostic indications (such as NTRK alterations) and for specific...