Lung Cancer

Alice T. Shaw, MD, PhD, thoracic oncologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, discusses ceritinib in newly diagnosed patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and brain metastases.

David L. Rimm, MD, PhD, professor of pathology and of medicine, director of pathology tissue services, director of translational pathology, Yale Cancer Center, discusses the continued role for PD-L1 testing to predict response with checkpoint inhibitors in non­–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Malcolm McAvoy DeCamp, Jr, MD, chief of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses different platforms of surgical management in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

The FDA has has granted a priority review to a new drug application for brigatinib for patients with metastatic ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer who are resistant to prior crizotinib.

Although nivolumab has demonstrated a clear survival advantage compared with chemotherapy in patients with progressive non–small cell lung cancer who express PD-L1 in their tumor cells, the same cannot be said for those who are PD-L1–negative.

Joel Neal, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University Medical Center, discusses what immunotherapy combinations oncologists are currently using in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, an assistant professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine, discusses the ALK inhibitor alectinib (Alecensa) and what potential the agent could have in the frontline setting for patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Velcheti shared this insight in an interview during the 2016 OncLive State of the Science Summit on Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Mary Jo Fidler, MD, associate professor, medical oncology, hematology, internal medicine, Rush University Medical Center, discusses how early and persistent oligoclonal T cell expansion correlates with durable response to anti-PD1 therapy in non-small cell lung cancer treatment (NSCLC).

Although there are no drugs that target TP53 mutations in any tumor type, a recent analysis of a non–small cell lung cancer sample set raises the prospect that a more detailed understanding of this aberration eventually could help direct therapy.

Heather A. Wakelee, MD, associate professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University Medical Center, regent, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) discusses the FDA approval of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in the frontline setting for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for the frontline treatment of patients with metastatic non­–small cell lung cancer whose tumors have ≥50% PD-L1 expression based on an FDA-approved test and who do not harbor EGFR or ALK aberrations.