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Dr. Riely is a board-certified medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with lung cancer and thymic tumors (thymoma and thymic carcinoma). In addition to caring for men and women with these diseases, he works to develop new treatments by designing and conducting clinical trials. His clinical research focuses on the treatment of patients with thymic tumors as well as non-small cell lung cancer with specific mutations (EGFR, KRAS, BRAF, or EML4-ALK mutant non-small cell lung cancer).

What is Acquired Resistance and How Does it Occur?
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Gregory J. Riely, MD, PhD, GRACE Faculty
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Acquired Resistance Forum Video #1: Dr. Gregory J. Riely of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center opened the Acquired Resistance in Lung Cancer Patient Forum with a basic introduction of how ALK, ROS1 and EGFR lung cancers become resistant to treatment. 

 

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