Coexistence of anaplastic lymphoma kinase rearrangement in lung adenocarcinoma harbouring epidermal growth factor receptor mutation: A single-center study
Wei-Xiang Zhong, Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi Province, China
Wei-Xiang Zhong, First Clinical Medical College, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Xi-Feng Wei, Department of Outpatient, Ganzhou Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi Province, China
Author contributions: Zhong WX contributed to conception and design, data analysis and interpretation; Zhong WX and Wei XF collected and assembled the data, wrote the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Scientific Research Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University (Approval No. LLSC-2021081601).
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study, because the data used in this study were all anonymous, which were not involved in the patients’ privacy information, they were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at bronco067@126.com. The data used in this study were all anonymous, which were not involved in the patients’ privacy information, they were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Wei-Xiang Zhong, MA, Attending Doctor, Surgeon, Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, No. 128 Jinling West Road, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi Province, China. bronco067@126.com
Received: August 7, 2022
Peer-review started: August 7, 2022
First decision: September 25, 2022
Revised: October 4, 2022
Accepted: October 24, 2022
Article in press: October 24, 2022
Published online: November 26, 2022