Lung Cancer

Vinay Edlukudige Keshava, MD, shares the story of his fellowship and provides advice on how to best transition to the next step in an oncologic career.

The FDA has approved a 505(b)(2) new drug application for Pemrydi RTU, the first and only ready-to-use presentation of pemetrexed or injection that does not require reconstitution, dilution, or refrigeration

Timothy I Shaw, PhD, discusses the genetic heterogeneity between paired primary and metastatic solid tumors, as well as the implications for neoantigen-based personalized vaccines in cancer care.

Dr Wade Thomas Iams explains how trastuzumab deruxtecan became the standard-of-care for HER2-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

Martin Dietrich, MD, PhD, details the molecular target CEACAM5 and its use in the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Stephen V. Liu, MD, highlighted the importance of next-generation sequencing in lung cancer, key trials that have shifted the non–small cell lung cancer treatment landscape, and detailed ongoing research at Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

A survey conducted by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Best Practices Committee found that 93% of United States cancer centers polled in the report are experiencing a shortage of carboplatin, and 70% currently have a shortage of cisplatin.

Sotorasib provided consistent benefit over docetaxel in the majority of key prespecified molecularly defined subsets of patients with pretreated KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer enrolled to the phase 3 CodeBreaK 200 trial.

The addition of tumor treating fields to standard-of-care immunotherapy or chemotherapy regimens elicited an improvement in overall survival vs SOC therapies alone in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer following progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy, according to data from the phase 3 LUNAR trial.

The novel irreversible EGFR exon 20 insertion inhibitor sunvozertinib demonstrated significant clinical activity and similar safety to prior reports in Chinese patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations who progressed on prior platinum-based chemotherapy, according to results from the phase 2 WO-KONH6 study.

The addition of pembrolizumab to pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy resulted in a numerical, but not statistically significant, improvement in progression-free survival or overall survival vs chemotherapy plus placebo in patients with TKI-resistant, EGFR-mutated, metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.

The SEZ6-targeted antibody-drug conjugate ABBV-011, when administered at 1 mg/kg every 3 weeks, was found to be well tolerated and to demonstrate early efficacy in patients with relapsed or refractory small cell lung cancer.

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab and chemotherapy continued to show durable benefit at 4 years compared with chemotherapy alone as first-line therapy in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer, particularly in the PD-L1–negative and squamous populations.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, discusses findings from the overall survival analysis of the phase 3 ADAURA trial of adjuvant osimertinib in patients with stage IB to IIIA resected non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR mutations.

Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy improved clinical outcomes vs chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer who received definitive surgery with numerical but not statistical improvements seen even when definitive surgery was not achieved.

The PD-1 and TIGIT bispecific rilvegostomig demonstrated promising early signs of tolerability and efficacy in patients with advanced or metastatic PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer following progression on at least 1 prior checkpoint inhibitor. according to initial findings from the phase 1/2 ARTEMIDE-01 study.

Treatment with adjuvant osimertinib produced a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival compared with placebo in patients with resected, EGFR-mutated, stage IB to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer.

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When administered at doses of 90 μg/kg or higher, the novel DLL3-targeting T-cell engager, BI 764532, was found to have an acceptable toxicity profile and to elicit encouraging responses in patients with DLL3-positive small cell lung cancer and neuroendocrine carcinoma.

The addition of pembrolizumab to neoadjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy followed by resection and adjuvant pembrolizumab alone resulted in a significant improvement in event-free survival and pathological response for patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer.

Drs Martin Dietrich and Wade Thomas Iams discuss the differences between the targets, payloads, and linker technologies of the antibody drug conjugates in development for lung cancer.

Wade Thomas Iams, MD, provides an overview of antibody drug conjugates in the treatment of patients with lung cancer, including challenges and impact on clinical practice.

Closing out their panel on immunotherapy in non–small cell lung cancer, expert oncologists share key takeaways on the selection of novel therapy in this setting.

Stephen V. Liu, MD, discusses the importance of next-generation sequencing in non–small cell lung cancer, and details trials that have continued to move this treatment arena forward.

Edgardo S. Santos, MD, FACP, discusses the evolution of osimertinib in the treatment of patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer and the updated data that reaffirmed its role in the adjuvant setting for this patient population.