In an analysis of three clinical trials, the targeted therapy larotrectinib resulted in a 79% overall response rate and median overall survival of 44.4 months in adult and pediatric patients with advanced cancers and NTRK gene fusions, regardless of cancer type. In contrast, those with other mutations in NTRK that were not gene fusions saw only a 1% overall response rate of median overall survival of just 10.7 months, highlighting the...
A deep sequencing study of brain metastases from MD Anderson revealed many similarities but also distinct differences relative to the primary...