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Lung cancer is currently the number one cause of cancer death both in the U.S. and globally among both men and women. An estimated 625 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. every day. As research funding grows, new treatments become available and survival rates improve. For some lung cancer patients, one promising treatment option is the rapidly growing field of targeted therapies, which employs drugs that interfere with specific molecules involved in the growth, progression, and spread of cancer. Currently, targeted therapies are used to treat NSCLC that has metastasized. Among patients with adenocarcinoma, the most common form of NSCLC, up to 30% have a known oncogenic driver mutation that could ultimately be treated with targeted therapies.