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Neil Vasan

Neil Vasan

Researcher

Aug 25, 2026

35:23
Other mutant selective drugs like STX four seventy-eight are close behind it in earlier phase trials.
35:32
[outro jingle] So ESR1 codes for the estrogen receptor itself, and we know that mutations in the part of the estrogen receptor that bind to a lot of compounds like estrogen itself, like tamoxifen, that binding can be altered when it's mutated.
35:51
I said that with PIK3CA, it's about forty percent of women with breast cancer.
35:56
ESR1, the true number I think is still a little controversial.
35:59
It's anywhere from ten percent to maybe twenty percent in my estimation.
36:04
I say this because some of the trials when they've done retesting in the blood, they've come up with larger numbers depending on what the denominator is.
36:11
This is getting into the weeds of the epidemiology, but what the denominator is, numbers anywhere from ten percent to as high as in the forty percent range.

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51:10
Could we shift a little bit and talk about ctDNA and the ctDNA testing?
17:47
So how does one get to speak on behalf of the patients, I guess, in this case? You register
17:54
on the website.
17:55
And generally, there's many patients as individuals will speak.
17:58
Sometimes caretakers speak.
18:00
Sometimes patient advocacy group directors speak.
18:04
Sometimes oncologists speak.
18:06
It's a mixture of in-person and virtual.

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28:46
And so was that something that was discussed as part of the justification for PFS2? Yeah.

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