Clinical Trials and Research
Dr. Rebecca Heist and Casandra McIntyre, RN discuss what clinical trials are and why they are important. Learn how clinical trials are benefitting patients and how we are keeping enrollees safe.
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Mass General Cancer Center: Thoracic Oncology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-4000
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My research focuses on tumor genetics and targeted therapy in lung cancer, and I lead clinical trials of novel agents in lung cancer.
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Dr. Rebecca Heist and Casandra McIntyre, RN discuss what clinical trials are and why they are important. Learn how clinical trials are benefitting patients and how we are keeping enrollees safe.
Drugs that inhibit the protein expressed by a mutated form of the KRAS gene might soon be approved, but cancer cells often develop additional mutations that make them resist such targeted drugs. Investigators have identified some of these mutations in a patient and strategies to overcome them.
A targeted therapy called capmatinib can provide significant benefits to patients who have advanced lung cancer with specific gene mutations, according to recently published results from a phase two clinical trial.