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Dr. Jack West is a medical oncologist and thoracic oncology specialist who is the Founder and previously served as President & CEO, currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE)

 

ASCO 2017 - Lung Cancer - Dacomitinib Beats Iressa as First Line Treatment for EGFR Mutation-Positive NSCLC
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Howard (Jack) West, MD
     
     

 

Drs. H. Jack West, Medical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, Washington and President and CEO of GRACE, Matthew Gubens, Thoracic Oncologist at the Thoracic Surgery and Oncology Clinic of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Center in San Francisco, California, and Jyoti Patel, Director of Thoracic Oncology at University of Chicago Medicine gathered post meeting to discuss new information from ASCO 2017 regarding lung cancer.   In this roundtable video, the doctors discuss Dacomitinib Beats Iressa as First Line Treatment for EGFR Mutation-Positive NSCLC: New Option or Too Little Too Late?

 

 

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