Surgery to remove the primary tumor was pursued to decrease the risk of developing mutations that confer resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

“so the first thing i thought in reading all the i mean read everything is i got to get this primary tumor out you know i'm considered inoperable but we know that having this primary tumor here increases my risk for mutations okay remember i said that the tyrosine kinase inhibitors or the tkis they work amazingly well but only so long you know somewhere between eight and say you know on average eight and with the more um advanced ones you know at the long end is like you know 24 to 30 months”