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1 **uning Le: [00:00]

Hello. Thank you for joining us for this podcast entitled EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Harboring Uncommon EGFR Mutations. My name is **uning Le. I am an Assistant Professor from UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Today, we have three other experts in the field for this discussion. Dr Daniel Costa, can you please introduce yourself?

2 Daniel Costa: [00:27]

Hello. I am Daniel Costa. I am a Thoracic Medical Oncologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. I am the group leader for our Thoracic Oncology Program and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

3 **uning Le: [00:41]

Dr Eric Nadler, can you please introduce yourself?

4 Eric Nadler: [00:44]

My name is Eric Nadler. I am a Head and Neck and Thoracic Oncologist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, and I run health informatics for thoracic and head and neck cancers in the US oncology networks. I have a huge database of information from which to cull.

5 **uning Le: [01:04]

All right, Dr John Heymach, can you please introduce yourself?

6 John Heymach: [01:07]

Hi, I am John Heymach. I am a Thoracic Medical Oncologist and I am Chair of the Department of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

7 **uning Le: [01:15]

All right. For today, first of all, I want to ask Dan to provide some background information on what we really mean by saying uncommon EGFR mutations, and what are uncommon EGFR mutations’ role in lung cancer?

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8 Daniel Costa: [01:34]

Thank you, ** with the emergence of COVID-19, those numbers changed markedly, but they are still not probably where we want them [22].

First and foremost, single genetic testing panels in the metastatic setting really do not exist anymore. So, most patients are being tested for more than one thing at a time, and that has been true for at least 3 years now [22]. And if you look at next-generation sequencing adoption throughout the nation, it went from about 30% in mid-2020 to now—more than 90% of all testing is next-generation sequencing. Now, [there are] lots of challenges with next-generation sequencing because that could be both plasma and tissue, and sometimes both. And of course, in our national community of practicing oncologists, there is a lot of heterogeneity in how people test, and what people test, and which tests they use. Whether or not it is both RNA- and DNA-containing, or whether it's just tissue or plasma [23, 24]. That being said, it is certainly moving in the right direction [25, 26].

But a couple of big points here that deserve mention. The first is, are we testing all the non-squamous, or are squamous actually being tested? And we know we can see EGFR and KRAS and other mutations in squamous histologies and certainly that is happening more and more. The second thing is, turnaround time has pushed a lot of people toward testing plasma-based approaches initially, sometimes in lieu of tissue-based testing, just because of the ease of it, and the turnaround time of some of the plasma-based approaches, and whether that be Guardant® or cobas®; they tend to be quicker than our tissue-based counterparts [27,28,29]. Lastly, there is a lot of geographic heterogeneity in our testing. I work in Texas in a large community practice and almost all of our patients are being tested in non-small cell lung cancer in the advanced setting. But you go to the state to the left or the right of me, and those rates could fall to 70% even today. So, it is a challenging, complicated time, and things like this podcast I hope will help inform and educate [to perform] at least tissue-based testing, and when that is difficult for turnaround time and tissue, you could add plasma to that easily; [it] should be done in all patients with non-small cell lung cancer [30]. And like I said, over the past 3 years, our numbers have more than doubled but they are still not where any of us would consider optimal.