The BATTLE Trial: Personalizing Therapy for Lung Cancer
Kim ES, Herbst RS, Wistuba II, Lee JJ, Blumenschein GR, Tsao A, Stewart DJ, Hicks ME, Erasmus J, Gupta S, Alden CM, Liu S, Tang X, Khuri FR, Tran HT, Johnson BE, Heymach JV, Mao L, Fossella F, Kies MS, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Davis SE, Lippman SM, Hong WK. The BATTLE Trial: Personalizing Therapy for Lung Cancer. Cancer Discovery 2011, 1: 44-53. PMID: 22586319, PMCID: PMC4211116, DOI: 10.1158/2159-8274.cd-10-0010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLung cancer patientsCancer patientsNon-small cell lung cancer patientsLung Cancer Elimination (BATTLE) trialCell lung cancer patientsDisease control rateCore needle biopsy specimensLung cancer clinical trialsSpecific patient populationsLung cancer therapyNeedle biopsy specimensCancer clinical trialsRelevant molecular biomarkersKRAS patientsNSCLC patientsPatient populationRandomization periodControl rateLaboratory findingsLung cancerBiopsy specimensClinical trialsTargeted therapyBATTLE TrialIndividualized treatment