Lung Cancer

Undergoing SBRT prior to starting maintenance chemotherapy significantly improved progression-free survival in patients with limited metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer, according to the results of a phase II study presented at the ASTRO Annual Meeting.

A case study from the University of Colorado suggests that traditional gene testing for NSCLC patients may not be sufficient for detecting potential oncogenic drivers.

People living with HIV who adhere to antiretroviral therapy but still smoke cigarettes are substantially more likely to die from lung cancer than from AIDS-related causes, according to the results of a new study.

Supplementation with B vitamins was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer among men, though not among women, according to a new study.

The FDA has approved the first cancer therapy biosimilar in the United States, a biosimilar to Avastin (bevacizumab) for the treatment of multiple types of cancer, including colorectal, lung, brain, kidney, and cervical cancers.

Circulating tumor cells isolated from early stages of lung cancer may be predictive of poor prognosis and could potentially be predictive biomarkers of disease recurrence.

A study comparing two options for follow-up protocol after complete lung cancer resection suggests that regular CT scans after resection may not be necessary, though there may be some benefits to these additional scans.

This video reviews the need for biomarkers and tools that could identify those at high risk of immune-related toxicities among patients undergoing immunotherapy treatment.

The programmed death 1 (PD-1) inhibitor pembrolizumab offers promising antitumor activity and a safety profile consistent with earlier research in heavily pretreated patients with programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)–expressing extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer, according to results of a phase I study.

ASCO is issuing a new clinical practice guideline that clarifies the role of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer.

This video reviews the role of surgery in the management of patients with mesothelioma.

Increases in the TP53 mutation in African American men with tobacco-related cancers may be responsible for chemotherapy resistance and a poorer prognosis overall.

Osimertinib demonstrated clinically meaningful progression-free survival benefit in EGFR mutation–positive NSCLC compared with current standard of care.

Researchers in Spain discovered a strange side effect of PD-L1 immunotherapy in some NSCLC patients-hair repigmentation-that may be a good response marker for this treatment.

This video reviews the role of surgery in patients with stage III (N2) non–small-cell lung cancer, highlighting some of the challenges in studying these patients and the need for multidisciplinary patient evaluations.

Computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer could lead to increased rates of smoking cessation in a high-risk population, with this “teachable moment” extending even to those with negative scan results.

Five-year results of a single-institution study show that proton beam radiotherapy given concurrently with chemotherapy offers promising clinical outcomes with good toxicity results compared with historical data.

A phase III trial failed to demonstrate superiority of eribulin over treatment of physician’s choice in patients with heavily pretreated non–small-cell lung cancer.

This video reviews pseudoprogression in non–small-cell lung cancer, including the incidence of this phenomenon and treatment considerations when it arises.

This video reviews the use of PD-L1 testing in selecting patients for frontline lung cancer treatment with pembrolizumab and examines which patients might not be appropriate for immunotherapy.

Once-daily RT given concurrently with chemotherapy showed no difference in survival compared with the twice-daily standard in small-cell lung cancer.

Holocaust survivors have a small but consistent increase in the risk of developing cancer, in particular colorectal and lung cancers.

Proton-beam therapy was found to be safe for patients with limited-stage small-cell lung cancer in the first prospective registry study of the therapy, with only a small number of high-grade toxicities.

This video reviews immunotherapy options now available for the treatment of lung cancer across different lines of therapy.

Nivolumab did not extend progression-free survival over chemotherapy in the first-line setting in patients with PD-L1–positive advanced non–small-cell lung cancer, according to results of an open-label phase III trial.

This video highlights a study that tested an alternative maintenance strategy determined by response to induction chemotherapy for patients with advanced non-squamous non–small-cell lung cancer.

A subpopulation of T cells called tissue resident memory cells may be able to determine which cancer patients' immune systems can mount an effective anti-tumor response

The FDA has approved dabrafenib in combination with trametinib for the treatment of BRAF V600E mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

Dr. Kim discusses why non-small cell lung cancer should be considered the paradigm for precision medicine, and how treatment of the disease has changed over the last decade.

Adding nintedanib to pemetrexed/cisplatin improved the progression-free survival of patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma compared with placebo.