Protein analysis of this tissue revealed discordant programmed death ligand 1 (PD‐L1) results at different cancer sites from the same patient; genetic analysis identified anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and B‐rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma (BRAF) gene fusions in a patient with a history of ALK inhibitor therapy and a clonal genetic origin of metastatic cancer cells. Here, ALK is linked to cancer.