Despite Hispanics only accounting for 23.23% of the NSCLC population in this study, there was an ALK prevalence of 12.76% compared with the Asians comprising 33.61% of the NSCLC population and having an ALK prevalence of 4.41%, non-Hispanic Blacks comprising 5.77% of the NSCLC population and having an ALK prevalence of 0%, non-Hispanic Whites comprising 29.98% of the NSCLC population and having an ALK prevalence of 7.69%, and other/unknown subgroups comprising 7.41% of the NSCLC population and having an ALK prevalence of 4.44% (Fig. 2). This evidence concerns the gene ALK and non-small cell lung carcinoma.