Martin Edelman, chair of hematology and oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, presented the results of a clinical study testing palbociclib, a drug used to treat breast cancer, in patients with squamous non-small cell lung cancer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
For more than a year before her stage 4 lung cancer was found, 35-year-old Alisa Secaida, a never-smoker and a physically active Southern Californian, had been experiencing a persistent cough and, increasingly, fatigue.
