ELCC 2016: ASSESS trial of blood test for detecting EGFR mutation status in advanced non-small cell lung cancer

At the 6th European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC), held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1316 April 2016, Martin Reck, MD, PhD, from LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Grosshansdorf, Germany, discusses ASSESS, a trial of the utility of circulating-free tumor DNA in the plasma for the detection of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.