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Early cancer detection or prevention

Final Biomarker and Efficacy Analyses of Lorlatinib in Patients With ALK-Positive Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in a Phase 2 Study.

Gene mutations offer clues about which advanced lung cancer patients may face shorter survival with current treatments.

This phase 2 clinical trial evaluates Final Biomarker and Efficacy Analyses of Lorlatinib in Patients With ALK-Positive Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in a Phase 2 Study. The PubMed abstract reports that Presence of a TP53 mutation was associated with shorter OS in all cohorts.

What the study was

Study design
Phase 2 clinical trial
Population
Human participants described in the PubMed abstract
Category
Early Detection
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

Why it surfaced

Phase 2 clinical trial with human evidence; scored conservatively from PubMed abstract-level metadata.

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