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For some reason, non-smoking lung cancer means 2-3x higher chance of finding a mutation that could be used for targeted therapy - e.g. EGFR, ALK, ROS1 and other
by kozikow 5y ago
For some reason, non-smoking lung cancer means 2-3x higher chance of finding a mutation that could be used for targeted therapy - e.g. EGFR, ALK, ROS1 and others. It doesn't mean that this mutation was present at birth, but at some point some cells mutated and became cancer cells.