Lung Cancer

A liquid biopsy test detected all of the guideline-recommended biomarkers in newly diagnosed patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer at a similar rate but faster turnaround time to that of tissue genotyping.

Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, director of the Lung Cancer Center, chief of clinical thoracic surgery, NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, discusses the role of surgery in lung cancer.

Janakiraman Subramanian, MD, a medical oncologist and director of thoracic oncology and director of the Center for Precision Medicine at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute, discusses tumor biology in lung cancer.

Mark A. Socinski, MD, executive medical director, AdventHealth Medical Group, discusses the current state of treatment for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Sarah B. Goldberg, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, discusses strategies for managing central nervous system metastases in patients with oncogene-driven non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has granted a priority review designation to a supplemental biologics license application for pembrolizumab (Keytruda) as a treatment for patients with advanced small cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed following ≥2 prior lines of therapy.

The FDA has granted a priority review designation to a new drug application for entrectinib as a treatment for select adult and pediatric patients with NTRK fusion–positive locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors, as well as patients with metastatic ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Elaine Shum, MD, medical oncologist, NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, discusses mechanisms of resistance in patients with oncogene-driven non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

J. Russell Davis, MD, clinical professor, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, thoracic surgeon, Saint Luke's Hospital, compares the use of robotic surgery with open surgery in patients with lung cancer.