Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Sintilimab with or without a bevacizumab biosimilar injection, combined with chemotherapy yielded promising findings in a population of patients with EGFR-mutant nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer who have previously been treated with an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

The FDA approved atezolizumab for treatment of stage II to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer following resection and platinum-based chemotherapy.

Treatment with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy yielded non-inferior long-term survival compared with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection in operable stage IA non–small cell lung cancer.

An association was identified between second-line clinical trial participation for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer and a mean cost savings of $6663 for health care payers.

A recent trial found that patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion–mutant metastatic non–small cell lung cancer with prior disease control on standard EGFR inhibitors demonstrated efficacy and tolerability of mobocertinib.

Patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer may derive benefit from being treated with ROS1/NTRK inhibitor taletrectinib.

Final read-out of progression-free survival data from the ALTA-1L trial indicates significant benefit of brigatinib versus crizotinib for patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer who have not previously received an ALK inhibitor.

Patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer experienced a survival benefit with adjuvant atezolizumab vs best supportive care.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Alexander Spira, MD, PhD, FACP, at the 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer to talk about future indications of mobocertinib.

Results from the phase 3 eXalt3 study indicated that ensartinib led to a longer progression-free survival and intracranial response rate compared with crizotinib for patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer.

Findings from the PACIFIC-R trial indicated that the real-world progression-free survival benefit of durvalumab was higher vs the median progression-free survival reported in the durvalumab arm of the phase 3 PACIFIC trial in unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD, at the 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer to talk about immunotherapy response in patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.

Patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer receiving sitravatinib plus nivolumab combination had promising objective responses during a post-hoc analysis of a phase 2 trial.

According to results from the Blood First Assay Screening Trial, blood-based tumor mutational burden did not predict a benefit of atezolizumab over chemotherapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Topline findings from the phase 2 KRYSTAL-1 study indicated that adagrasib may hold promise in patients with KRAS G12C–mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients with stage II to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer experienced an improvement in disease-free survival and time to locoregional and distant relapse after being treated with adjuvant atezolizumab.

The antibody drug conjugate, datopotamab deruxtecan, was safe in heavily pretreated patients who don’t have many treatment options after treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors and platinum-based chemotherapy.

Daily poziotinib in patients with untreated HER2 exon 20-mutant non-small cell lung cancer resulted in tumor reduction.

Patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer did not experience additional progression-free survival benefit after being treated with osimertinib and bevacizumab.

Patients with HER2-mutated non–small cell lung cancer derived robust and long-lasting responses from fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki.

Results of a phase 1/2 trial revealed the recommended phase 2 and maximum-tolerated dose of mobocertinib in Japanese patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

For patients with advanced EGFR Exon 20 Insertion–positive non–small cell lung cancer, mobocertinib appears to yield clinically meaningful activity compared with real-world data.

The FDA granted approval to the first oral therapy for advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, mobocertinib.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Alexander Spira, MD, PhD, FACP, at the 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer to talk about clinical benefits of using mobocertinib in patients with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation–positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Progression-free survival lengths were different among patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving sotorasib when stratified by genomic profile.

Findings from a phase 2 trial indicate that the use of neoadjuvant osimertinib may hold promise in a population of patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Adjuvant atezolizumab led to disease-free survival benefit in patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer, including most patient subgroups, in the phase 3 IMpower010 trial.

Patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring ALK mutations who were not suitable for crizotinib therapy, either due to resistance or intolerance, showed benefit with sequential crizotinib and alectinib.

Patients with non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases experienced a favorable safety profile along with efficacy results when treated with atezolizumab plus chemotherapy.

The phase 3 POSEIDON trial indicated that patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who were treated with first-line durvalumab and chemotherapy with or without tremelimumab experienced a statistically significant survival benefit.