Early Study Results Find High Proportion of Young Lung Cancer Patients With Targetable Mutations

Sep 22, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers hoping to uncover the genetic factors underlying lung cancer in young and otherwise healthy adults have reported preliminary results showing that 76 percent of participants in a study had druggable driver mutations in their tumors.

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