ASCO 2018 - Combining Metformin with Standard EGFR Therapy - Is the Jury Still Out

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ASCO 2018 - Combining Metformin with Standard EGFR Therapy - Is the Jury Still Out

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Tue, 12/18/2018 - 14:54

ASCO 2018 Roundtable

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Howard (Jack) West, MD

Drs. H. Jack West, Medical Director - Thoracic Oncology Program at Swedish Cancer Institute, President and CEO of GRACE, Karen Kelly - Associate Director for Clinical Research at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Sandip Patel - Medical Oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego Health, gathered post meeting to discuss new information from ASCO 2018 regarding lung cancer.

In this roundtable video, the doctors discuss if the jury is still out in regard to combining Metformin with standard EGFR therapy.

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