Lung Cancer

Brigatinib resulted in a 52% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death and a 56% reduction in the risk of intracranial progression compared with crizotinib in patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer, according to final data from the phase 3 ALTA-1L trial.

Mobocertinib displayed a manageable safety profile across 40-mg, 120-mg, and 160-mg dose cohorts in Japanese patients with non–small cell lung cancer, which, when coupled with pharmacokinetic analysis, led to the determination of 160 mg as the maximum tolerated dose and recommended phase 2 dose for further study in this population.

Mobocertinib, a novel EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, exhibited clinically meaningful activity in patients with non–small cell lung cancer who harbor EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations following frontline platinum-based chemotherapy when compared indirectly with real-world data of patients treated with standard of care.

Estelamari Rodriguez, MD, MPH, discusses the role of immunotherapy in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Collin Blakely MD, PhD, discusses the design of an ongoing phase 2 trial examining osimertinib in resectable EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has approved mobocertinib for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test, whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy.

Chad V. Pecot, MD, discusses selecting between available targeted therapies in RET-, KRAS-, and MET exon 14 skipping–mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Neal E. Ready, MD, PhD, discusses the role of frontline chemoimmunotherapy in lung cancer.

The clinical response to sotorasib could vary in patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer depending on their co-mutational status.

Pradnya D. Patil, MD, FACP, discusses the development of KRAS G12C inhibitors in lung cancer.

Neoadjuvant treatment with cisplatin/pemetrexed plus atezolizumab, followed by maintenance atezolizumab, demonstrated early efficacy with acceptable safety in patients with resectable pleural mesothelioma.

Mobocertinib was found to provide a meaningful clinical benefit with acceptable tolerability in patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion–positive metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who had previously achieved disease control of 6 months or longer with EGFR TKIs.

Mobocertinib plus ado-trastuzumab emtansine demonstrated inhibitory effects in HER2 exon 20 insertion–mutated lung cancer cell lines.

Edward B. Garon, MD, discusses the efficacy of datopotamab deruxtecan in patients with non–small cell lung cancer, as reported in the phase 1 TROPION-PanTumor01 trial.

Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MD, discusses geographic disparities in lung cancer mortality rates across the United States.

Frontline sequential therapy with crizotinib followed by alectinib demonstrated survival benefits for patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer who develop resistance to, or become intolerant of crizotinib.

Atezolizumab plus carboplatin and pemetrexed yielded a favorable safety and efficacy profile in patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer with untreated brain metastases.

Makenzi Evangelist, MD, discusses the goals of the MYLUNG Consortium in lung cancer.

Vilde D. Haakensen, MD, PhD, discusses exclusion criteria for the Oslo University Hospital Named Patient Use program for adjuvant durvalumab in non–small cell lung cancer.

The combination of lurbinectedin and doxorubicin produced comparable efficacy to that of standard-of-care vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin or topotecan in patients with relapsed small cell lung cancer, missing the primary end point of the phase 3 ATLANTIS trial.

Adjuvant atezolizumab improved disease-free survival over best supportive care in patients with PD-L1–positive, stage II to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer, with benefit observed across most subgroups analyzed, according to data from an exploratory analysis of the phase 3 IMpower010 trial.

Lisberg discusses the excitement with datopotamab deruxtecan in non–small cell lung cancer and previews anticipated data from the NSCLC cohort of the TROPION-PanTumor01 trial at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Flexibilities in time and place were effective strategies to mitigate COVID–19-related patient concerns and to increase participation in international lung cancer clinical trials.

The first-line combination of durvalumab and chemotherapy, with or without tremelimumab, led to a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, according to data from the phase 3 POSEIDON trial.