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Dr. Aakash Desai, MBBS, MPH serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the O'Neal Cancer Center, University of Alabama Birmingham. His pioneering research is primarily concentrated in the realm of evidence-based oncology, clinical trials, drug development, healthcare delivery, and quality of cancer care. He holds a particular interest in Thoracic Oncology and drug development.

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Program: LCVL 2023
Oncologists discuss a variety of topics in lung cancer, including biomarker testing, immunotherapy, KRAS+ disease, and emerging therapies, among other topics.

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Aakash Desai, MD, MPH - Guest Faculty
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LCVL 2023

In this video series, Dr. Aakash Desai gives an overview of what a biomarker is, and why biomarkers are important in the treatment of NSCLC, discusses the changes that have occurred in treating NSCLC in the past few decades, Lung Cancer risk factors, and prior treatment options.

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