Every year, many of the most important developments in cancer care are presented at ASCO. This year, we've got what I think is a very important year in lung cancer, with several practice-changing results/.

This is a slide presentation I did last week at a local conference, describing the steady, incremental improvements in survival with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that have occurred over the past 10-15 years.

Yesterday, the FDA approved the oral second generation ALK inhibitor LDK378, also known as ceritinib and newly christened Zykadia, for ALK-positive NSCLC who have progressed on or are intolerant of XALKORI (crizotinib).

Several new treatments for ALK positive lung cancer patients are on the horizon. In this video, the doctors discuss them while patients in the audience share some of their experiences with side effects on various treatments.

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New treatments for ALK rearrangements are on the horizon. In this video, the doctors discuss how they determine whether or not they change treatments for their patients once they begin to show progression while on Xalkori (crizotinib).

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Xalkori (crizotinib) was one of the fastest approved drugs in cancer treatment history because of its high efficacy levels in ALK positive lung cancer patients. In this video, the doctors discuss what took place as it raced to approval, as well as the limitations and side effects of the drug.

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This past week, I saw a new patient who had just moved from another part of the country and needed long-term management of her high risk lung cancer.  A never-smoking Asian woman, she was found to have a stage IIIA lung cancer with "N2" mediastinal lymph nodes involving cancer in her mid-chest.

Dr. Bob Doebele from the University of Colorado, provides his view on the targeted therapy approaches most likely to become clinically useful in lung cancer over the next several years.

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Drs. Jack West, Mary Pinder, and Nate Pennell discuss options for managing acquired resistance to EGFR TKIs and ALK inhibitors in patients with advanced NSCLC and a driver mutation.

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Dr. Mary Pinder reviews promising studies from ASCO 2013 on second gen. ALK inhibitors LDK-378, CH5424802, and AP26113 in patients with ALK-positive advanced NSCLC, including impressive activity in crizotinib-refractory patients and those with brain mets.

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