IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

Four distinct subgroups, each associated with distinctive signaling pathways, microenvironments, and clinical-pathologic futures, were discovered in a population of patients with MET exon 14 skipping non–small cell lung cancer.

The use of a platinum-based chemotherapy and anti–PD-1 regimen was supported by differences in upregulated antigen processing, T-cell receptor coexpression, and lymphocyte infiltration pathways in patients with or without pathologic complete responses who had stage IIIA resectable non–small cell lung cancer.

Sugemalimab appeared to be safe and effective when used as consolidation therapy for patients with unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who did not have disease progression following concurrent chemoradiation or sequential chemoradiation.

The combination use of first-line durvalumab plus tremelimumab for the treatment of patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer improved overall survival compared with standard-of-care chemotherapy.

Larotrectinib continued to elicit durable responses and a low toxicity profile in patients with NTRK fusion–positive lung cancer, according to long-term follow-up data from the phase 2 NAVIGATE trial and phase 1 LOXO-TRK-14001 trial.

Ociperlimab, an anti-TIGIT monoclonal antibody, plus the anti–PD-L1 monoclonal antibody tislelizumab induced promising efficacy in adults with treatment-naïve, metastatic, PD-L1–positive non­–small cell lung cancer, according to data from the dose-expansion cohort of the AdvanTIG-105 trial.

The addition of tremelimumab to durvalumab and chemotherapy improved clinical benefit and survival benefit vs. chemotherapy alone in patients with PD-L1–negative metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Second- or third-line tislelizumab continued to display an overall survival benefit vs docetaxel in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Investigators are evaluating the combination of repotrectinib and osimertinib for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer in the phase 1 TOTEM trial.

The antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan will be evaluated vs single-agent docetaxel during the phase 3 EVOKE-01 trial in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Acquired resistance because of genetic alterations in the MET receptor has limited the efficacy of the EGFR inhibitor osimertinib in patients with non–small cell lung cancer. Investigators have sought to circumvent this barrier through targeting MET protein activity with the addition of the novel MET TKI, savolitinib.

Eftilagimod alpha plus pembrolizumab demonstrated promising benefits in overall survival and progression-free survival as a second-line treatment in patients with non–small cell lung cancer who progressed on anti–PD-1/anti–PD-L1 therapy.

The Board of Directors of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer is pleased to announce the appointment of Karen L. Kelly, M.D. to the position of Chief Executive Officer, effective Spring 2022.

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

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.

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.