"My doctor says your alk phosphatase number is high," Feiler recalls.
“医生告诉我说，你的碱性磷酸酶指数(alk phosphatase)很高。”费勒回忆道。
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There are other examples of success in specifically targeting genetic changes in never-smokers with lung cancer, such as treatments of tumors with alterations in the EML4-ALK gene.
In 2007 a group of researchers discovered that the fusion of two normally independent genes, EML4 and ALK, into one aberrant gene seems to drive the formation of tumours.