Download the speaker presentations and handouts from the Targeted Therapies Patient Forum in Cleveland at the Taussig Cancer Center on September 16, 2017.

Dr. Jack West, Swedish Cancer Institute, identifies the platinum-based chemotherapy doublet as the backbone of first-line treatment for the majority of NSCLC patients.

Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado, explains the preference for crizotinib rather than platinum doublet chemotherapy as first line treatment for patients with ALK or ROS1 rearrangements.

Transcript

More and more, when people are doing molecular testing on their tumor, they’re not just getting one test and if it’s negative doing another test — that’s called sequential testing, they’re doing lots of tests at the same time — that’s called multiplex testing. There are certain good things about that and certain things which are less than good.

Dr. Jared Weiss, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the genetic risk (or lack thereof) for lung cancer.

Dr. Jared Weiss, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, describes the types of situations in which local therapy is appropriate for treating limited acquired resistance.

Dr. Jack West, Brendan Bietry, and Janet Freeman-Daily take questions from the audience about financial assistance, legal protections, and patient support.

Janet Freeman-Daily, a ROS1 lung cancer patient since 2011, talks about the importance of patients' involvement in their own health care and the support that exists online to help patients navigate the system.

Brendan Bietry of the Patient Advocate Foundation discusses the financial assistance programs available to lung cancer patients who receive targeted therapies.