Aggarwal and Gandara on Incorporating Liquid Biopsies Into the Lung Cancer Armamentarium

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Today, we had the pleasure of speaking with Charu Aggarwal, MD, MPH, a medical oncologist at Abramson Cancer Center and the Leslye M. Heisler Associate Professor for Lung Cancer Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, and David R. Gandara, MD, director of the Thoracic Oncology Program, professor, and senior advisor to the director of the University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, as well as a 2017 Giant of Cancer Care^® in Lung Cancer, to discuss the role of liquid biopsy in lung cancer.

In our exclusive interview, Aggarwal and Gandara discussed the evolution of liquid biopsy in lung cancer, explained the clinical implications of recent liquid biopsy approvals, and forecasted the future of liquid biopsy in the field.