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Dr. Jack West is a medical oncologist and thoracic oncology specialist, and Executive Director of Employer Services at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, CA.

Case Based Panel Discussion –ALK Positive, High PD-L1:First Line Treatment for Competing Targets
Fri, 03/20/2020 - 00:00
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Howard (Jack) West, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Medical Oncology, Executive Director, Employer Services, Founder, President and CEO of GRACE
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For this round of case based panel discussions, Dr. Jack West is joined by Drs. Jonathan Riess and Suki Padda.

Jonathan W. Riess, MD MS is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Sukhmani Padda MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology) at the Stanford University Medical Center.

The doctors discuss a series of cases related to a diagnosis of ALK Positive NSCLC. In this video, the discussion is regarding a patient with ALK positive and high PDL-1. What is the first line treatment for potentially competing targets?

 

 

For a full listing of these case based discussions, please visit https://cancergrace.org/sponsor/case-based-panel-discussions-2019-lung-cancer.

To join the conversation, visit https://cancergrace.org/forum

 

 

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