Howard (Jack) West, MD, Medical Director, Thoracic Oncology Program Swedish Cancer Institute, President & CEO, Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE), Seattle, WA, discusses treatment therapies and molecular diagnostics for lung cancer.

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