Thomas Zander

TL;DR: This first comprehensive study of somatic genome alterations in SCLC uncovers several key biological processes and identifies candidate therapeutic targets in this highly lethal form of cancer.

TL;DR: This study implicates histone modification as a major feature of SCLC, reveals potentially therapeutically tractable genomic alterations and provides a generalizable framework for the identification of biologically relevant genes in the context of high mutational background.

TL;DR: High-throughput genotyping is adapted to query 238 known oncogene mutations across 1,000 human tumor samples and established robust mutation distributions spanning 17 cancer types, offering a new dimension in tumor genetics, where mutations involving multiple cancer genes may be interrogated simultaneously and in 'real time'.

TL;DR: The CheckMate 649 trial as discussed by the authors evaluated first-line programmed cell death (PD)-1 inhibitor-based therapies in gastric, gastro-oesophageal junction, and oesophage alogaryal adenocarcinoma.

TL;DR: F focal FGFR1 amplification is common in squamous cell lung cancer and associated with tumor growth and survival, suggesting that FGFR inhibitors may be a viable therapeutic option in this cohort of patients.