Amplification and activating mutations of FGFR1 have been observed in NSCLC [13,14,17], while silencing the expression of FGFR1 by siRNA or pharmacological inhibition of FGFR1 by small molecules suppresses the development of NSCLC [11,12,16,17]. Here, FGFR1 is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.