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Purpose: Despite proven benefits, few cancer patients exercise during chemotherapy. The American College of Sports Medicine's Exercise is Medicine® (EIM) initiative describes a model to integrate exercise into oncology care, based upon assessing patients' ability to exercise safely, advising on exercise benefits, and referring patients to exercise. We developed and tested a strategy to implement EIM in a community-based oncology clinic, to assess-advise-refer 20 patients undergoing chemotherapy to a 3-month online exercise class, and measured implementation outcomes.

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Rationale: Triple-negative breast cancer has a dismal prognosis, especially once it has spread to other organs, due to the lack of effective treatments available at this time. Finding an effective treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer remains an unmet medical need.

Patient Concerns: A 60-year-old woman was diagnosed with stage IIIC triple-negative breast cancer after undergoing a mastectomy.

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Rationale: Breast cancer is the most common as well as one of the most devastating cancers among women in the United States. Prognosis is poor for patients with metastatic breast cancer, especially for patients with so-called "triple-negative" disease. The lack of effective therapies for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer outlines the need for novel and innovative treatment strategies.

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Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors harbor anaplastic lymphoma kinase ( gene fusions benefit from treatment with ALK inhibitors (ALKi). Analysis of cell-free circulating tumor DNA (cfDNA) may provide a noninvasive way to identify fusions and actionable resistance mechanisms without an invasive biopsy. The Guardant360 (G360; Guardant Health) deidentified database of NSCLC cases was queried to identify 88 consecutive patients with 96 plasma-detected fusions.

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