
Helena A. Yu
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Sep 21, 2026
Dr. Timothy Burns: Precision Lung Cancer Therapy | Ep. 15
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27:40Timothy BurnsGUEST
And, but there's higher toxicity.
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27:43Timothy BurnsGUEST
And so there's been a lot of work, including there was an ASCO presentation this year that was presented as well as work by Helena Yu to try to figure out, well, who really benefits from quote unquote escalating therapy? And from the clinical trial, phase three clinical trials that showed these combinations were better, the patients that cleared their ctDNA did well regardless whether they got more therapy or less therapy.
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28:13Timothy BurnsGUEST
So if you cleared your therapy with just the pill, you did pretty much quite as well.
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28:19Timothy BurnsGUEST
So a lot of us in those cases are using that to say, should we escalate therapy? Or I had a patient who had all these high-risk features, and I said, look, You have an ocular met, a brain met.