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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 2018 - Tarceva or Tarceva with Avastin as 1st Line for EGFR Positive NSCLC vs. Tagrisso or Vizimpro
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 treatment with Tarceva or Tarceva with Avastin as first line therapy for EGFR Positive NSCLC vs. the use of Tagrisso or Vizimpro.


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