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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.
Here's a brief video I did for Swedish Cancer Institute that explains the basic concepts of maintenance therapy for advanced NSCLC.
I hope it's helpful to those of you just learning about what might come after first line therapy for advanced NSCLC.
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