LUNG CANCER

In an interview, Aakash Desai, MD, MPH, discussed significant lung cancer treatment advancements that were highlighted at ASCO 2024.

Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD, discusses a self-taught artificial intelligence tool being developed to accurately diagnose cases of adenocarcinoma.

Jessica Paulus, ScD, discussed a study investigating real-world trends in lung cancer staging among community oncology practices.

Salma Jabbour, MD, discusses the implications of a 4-year follow-up of the KEYNOTE-799 study of pembrolizumab and chemoradiotherapy in stage III non–small cell lung cancer.

During a Case-Based Roundtable® event, Yasir Y. Elamin, MD, discussed with participants how they select treatment for a patient with ALK+ non–small cell lung cancer and brain metastases in the first article of a 2-part series.

Narjust Florez, MD, shared insights into emerging issues seen for young patients with lung cancer facing fertility and pregnancy and the urgent need for tailored guidelines and research.

Encouraging trends were seen with osimertinib and platinum-pemetrexed chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer in the phase 3 FLAURA2 study.

Atezolizumab can be given subcutaneously and it is a preferred method of delivery by patients with non–small cell lung cancer, according to results from the phase 2 IMscin002 trial.

Amivantamab plus chemotherapy significantly prolonged progression-free survival in patients with EGFR-mutant advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

A self-taught AI tool that accurately diagnoses adenocarcinoma and predicts cancer recurrence has been developed and has shown to outperform traditional methods.

Sawsan Rashdan, MD, discusses the background, findings, and next steps of a phase 2 study evaluating treatment with osimertinib and consolidative SABR for the treatment of EGFR-mutated NSCLC.

Joshua K. Sabari, MD, and the Oncology Brothers discuss recent findings from the ADRIATIC study focused on durvalumab as consolidation treatment for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer.

The Oncology Brothers and Joshua K. Sabari, MD, provide expert perspectives on recent updates from the CROWN trial investigating lorlatinib in treatment-naïve advanced ALK+ non–small cell lung cancer.

Expert perspectives on recent data from the PALOMA-3 study investigating subcutaneous amivantamab in patients with refractory EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Joshua K. Sabari, MD, discusses recent updates from the MARIPOSA study, which is investigating amivantamab plus lazertinib in the first line in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Following ASCO 2024, Joshua K. Sabari, MD, joins the Oncology Brothers, Rahul Gosain, MD, and Rohit Gosain, MD, to discuss results from the LAURA trial investigating osimertinib following definitive chemoradiotherapy in patients with unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations.

Minesh Mehta, MD, discusses positive findings from the phase 3 METIS trial investigating TTFields therapy for brain metastases in NSCLC.

The METIS trial of tumor treating fields for the treatment of brain metastases in patients with non–small cell lung cancer met its primary end point, showing a statistically significant improvement in time to intracranial progression.

The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab with chemotherapy shows significant long-term survival benefits in metastatic NSCLC, irrespective of PD-L1 expression or histology, as per updated 5-year data.

The combination of the adenovirus CAN-2409 and valacyclovir with continued immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy demonstrated favorable tolerability and induced a positive immune response.

Perioperative nivolumab led to a significant improvement in event-free survival in the phase 3 CheckMate 77T trial in patients with stage III N2 and stage III non-N2 non–small cell lung cancer.

During a Case-Based Roundtable® event, Julia Rotow, MD, continued a discussion on how biomarker testing for patients with non–small cell lung cancer impacts treatment decisions in the second article of a 2-part series.

Datopotamab deruxtecan was efficacious among patients with non-small cell lung cancer and baseline brain metastases who harbor actionable genomic alterations, according to an exploratory analysis of the phase 2 TROPION-Lung05 trial.

Patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer responded to the next-generation inhibitor taletrectinib with acceptable toxicity.

Recent data shows that telehealth is comparable to quality of life to in-person visits for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.