Lung Cancer Articles

Paul K. Paik, MD, discusses treatment advances and sequencing strategies for patients with ALK-positive NSCLC.

Helena A. Yu, MD, discusses sequencing strategies in EGFR-mutant NSCLC, the impact of osimertinib in the frontline setting, and the questions surrounding dacomitinib’s intriguing data in this landscape.

Matthew D. Hellmann, MD, discusses the expansion of biomarkers across single-agent and combination therapies in patients with non–small cell lung cancer. 

The FDA has approved osimertinib as a first-line treatment for patients with non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor EGFR mutations (exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R substitution mutations).
 

The FDA has granted a priority review to a supplemental biologics license application for nivolumab (Opdivo) for the treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer with disease progression following 2 or more lines of therapy.

Tumor mutational burden in non–small cell lung cancer identified patients who were more likely to respond to first-line combination immunotherapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab, an updated analysis of CheckMate-586 clinical trial data showed.

Adding atezolizumab to chemotherapy and an angiogenesis inhibitor led to significant improvement in progression-free survival for patients with untreated advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer.

Ashley A. Weiner, MD, PhD, discusses the expansions and limitations of radiotherapy in patients with non–small cell lung cancer and ongoing efforts to enhance administration and efficacy.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab more than tripled the 1-year progression-free survival rate versus chemotherapy for treatment-naïve patients with non–small cell lung cancer with high tumor mutation burden.

Neoadjuvant treatment with nivolumab demonstrated a 45% major pathologic response rate in patients with resectable stage I to III non–small cell lung cancer irrespective of PD-L1 expression.