Abstract:Lung cancer is the main cause of cancer mortality worldwide, 80% of which are non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in type and >50% are adenocarcinoma in histology. Lung adenocarcinomas are mainly driven by three oncogenes, KRAS, EGFR, and ALK, leaving the remaining cases placed into a triple-negative adenocarcinoma (TNA) category, driven in part by recently identified oncogenic drivers, chromosomal fusions of ROS1 and RET and overexpression of DEPDC1, in up to ~12% of all TNA cases. The utilization of FISH assa… Show more
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