Pembrolizumab Shows Benefit for NSCLC Patients with Brain Metastases
The results showed that even patients with disease that has spread to the brain should be considered for immunotherapy.
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The results showed that even patients with disease that has spread to the brain should be considered for immunotherapy.
The agent has a high affinity and specificity for interleukin-1 beta.
Metformin appeared to increase glucose uptake in lung cancer cells, according to results from a phase II trial.
Sequential afatinib and osimertinib improved median overall survival by almost 3.5 years in patients with EGFR T790M-positive non-small cell lung cancer, with an even greater benefit seen in those with Del19-positive disease.
NLR appeared to be a significant predictor of overall survival, and also showed a trend in favor of progression-free survival, among patients with stage III locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
A new study presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's 2019 conference may have found a model for lung cancer screening which improves on lung cancer screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) results in fewer in-hospital complications and a shorter length of stay compared with open surgery in patients with early-stage lung cancer.
In this phase III trial, investigators assessed the clinical efficacy and safety of durvalumab with or without tremelimumab with etoposide and carboplatin or cisplatin chemotherapy followed by durvalumab with or without tremelimumab maintenance therapy compared with EP alone as first-line treatment in extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer.
Combination immunotherapy with nivolumab plus ipilimumab was examined as a first-line therapy for patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer. Results were presented at the International Associate for the Study of Lung Cancer 2019 World Conference on Lung Cancer.
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