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Co-occurring alterations in EGFR-mutant NSCLC are increasingly detected via broad NGS and may signal aggressive biology, prompting interest in escalation strategies that address concurrent drivers.

The approval was based on a cohort of treatment-naïve patients in the Beamion LUNG-1 trial who had unresectable or metastatic, non-squamous NSCLC with HER2 tyrosine kinase domain mutations.

A global database of new crop varieties developed by mutation breeding has been upgraded and expanded to include data on mutant microbial bacteria and fungi strains as well as mutant plant varieties.