{"id":238815,"date":"2025-10-25T01:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T01:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:09:14","slug":"a-gp-guide-to-molecular-testing-in-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238815\/","title":{"rendered":"A GP guide to molecular testing in lung cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to know:<\/p>\n<p>Lung cancer remains a significant health challenge in Australia, being the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths annually.2<\/p>\n<p>Recent advances in treatment, including immunotherapy and targeted therapies, have improved patient outcomes, and molecular testing plays a crucial role in guiding optimal treatment decisions for lung cancer patients.3\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Identification of activating alterations in key oncogenes within a patient\u2019s tumour, such as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) or anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), enable access to specific targeted therapies, such as PBS-reimbursed targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors, which are more effective and generally better tolerated than traditional chemotherapy.4-6 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Need to know: Lung cancer remains a significant health challenge in Australia, being the fifth most commonly diagnosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,27218,336,137,16782,142854,5311,39767,4086],"class_list":["post-238815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-diagnostics","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-immunotherapy","tag-medicines-management","tag-oncology","tag-pathology","tag-respiratory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}