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ArticleInternational medical case reports journal2019

Transformation of ALK expression and PD-L1 0% to PD-L1 90% only after surgery: the need for rebiopsy in lung cancer patients.

Christoforos Kosmidis, Georgios Koimtzis, Dimitrios Giannakidis, Nikos Tteralli, Stylianos Mantalovas, Alexandros Tsakalidis, Konstantina Tsopouridou, Stefanos Atmatzidis, Lazaros Liavas, Paul Zarogoulidis

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Article in International medical case reports journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Christoforos Kosmidis3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Georgios Koimtzis3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Dimitrios Giannakidis3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nikos Tteralli3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Stylianos Mantalovas3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Alexandros Tsakalidis3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Konstantina Tsopouridou3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Stefanos Atmatzidis3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Lazaros Liavas3rd Department of Surgery, "AHEPA" University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Paul ZarogoulidisDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, pzarog@hotmail.com.

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Abstract

Lung cancer is still diagnosed at a late stage although novel diagnostic techniques are in use. However, as pharmacogenomics have evolved novel targeted therapies either with tyrosine kinase inhibitors or immunotherapy can be currently used as daily treatment. We present the case of a woman with anaplastic lymphoma-positive expression and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) 0% score upon diagnosis who underwent therapeutic surgery and represented PD-L1 90% expression, however, without anaplastic lymphoma kinase expression. Transformation of the tumor or new tumor is a question to be answered for this patient and possibly we should try and direct rebiopsies for this group of targeted therapy patients.

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adenocarcinomaALKEBUSlung cancerPD-L1

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PMID30666169
PMCPMC6333155

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