Lung Cancer

A 5-year follow-up of the phase 3 EMPOWER-Lung 1 showed the greatest survival benefits in patients with NSCLC who have a PD-L1 expression of 90% or more.

End-of-life demands card game and mindfulness-based cancer recovery program use may enhance the quality of life for patients with lung cancer.

Multivariate analysis showed consolidative thoracic radiotherapy improved OS/PFS vs control patients with ES-SCLC, with respective HRs of 0.53 and 0.90.

Pooled results from the TRUST-I and TRUST-II trials showed that taletrectinib led to infrequent neurological TEAEs in patients with ROS1-positive NSCLC.

Phase 3 CROWN trial findings suggest that patients with ALK-positive NSCLC may maintain efficacy even after reducing lorlatinib dosing to mitigate AEs.

Surufatinib/toripalimab elicited an ORR of 57.1% in patients with treatment-naïve NSCLC and 15.8% in patients with pretreated SCLC in a phase 2 trial.

A futility analysis showed that ociperlimab was unlikely to reach the primary end point of overall survival as part of the phase 3 AdvanTIG-302 trial.

An expert panel at ELCC 2025 reviews the MARIPOSA trial's implications for first-line therapy in EGFR-mutated NSCLC and broader advancements.

A stronger commitment to tobacco control at the local, state, and federal levels may further improve progress in preventing smoking-related mortality.

Patients with driver gene–negative non–small cell lung cancer who received immunotherapy beyond progression experienced better survival outcomes.

The diagnostic accuracy of radiologists aided by the eyonis LCS AI software was greatly improved compared with when radiologists were unaided.

Investigators showcased feasibility of combining pathology findings with deep learning artificial intelligence to speed up biomarker detection and discovery for patients with lung cancer.

The mean number of palliative care visits was nearly halved for stepped-palliative care vs early palliative care in patients with advanced lung cancer.

Read about a woman with well-differentiated atypical carcinoid who experienced a 21% regression in primary tumor size after 12 months on neoadjuvant capecitabine and temozolomide.

"Anything that you can do to leverage technology to minimize the variability in surgery eliminates the skill gap so that novice surgeons may become as technically gifted as the intermediate surgeon or the master surgeon."

Phase 3 data also show an improvement in deterioration-free survival with TTFields and best supportive care in those with NSCLC and brain metastases.

Long-term data from the CheckMate 9LA trial support nivolumab/ipilimumab plus chemotherapy as frontline treatment for metastatic NSCLC.

Most treatment-related adverse effects reported with CAN-2409 plus valacyclovir in a phase 2 trial were grade 1 or 2.

CheckMate 77T trial saw an EFS improvement with neoadjuvant nivolumab in stage III N2 and stage III non-N2 non–small cell lung cancer.

Phase 2 data support further evaluation of datopotamab deruxtecan in patients with non–small cell lung cancer and brain metastases.

The CheckMate 816 trial reinforced the EFS data of nivolumab plus chemotherapy in resectable NSCLC.

Final DFS results from IMpower010 show consistent survival when adjuvant atezolizumab was used in stage IB to IIIA NSCLC.

Phase 2 data also show activity in diseases with resistance mutations such as G2032R with taletrectinib.

Either telehealth or in-person recipes of palliative care did not impact the quality of life outcomes for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Osimertinib may become a new standard of care for those with EGFR-mutant NSCLC, according to Suresh S. Ramalingam, MD, FACP, FASCO.

Data from the ADRIATIC trial show consistent PFS and OS benefits with durvalumab across predefined limited-stage small cell lung cancer subgroups.

A PFS benefit with adagrasib was observed across all key patient subgroups in the phase 3 KRYSTAL-12 trial.

Subcutaneous amivantamab proved noninferior vs intravenous administration in EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Updated MARIPOSA results found improves progression-free survival in patients with high-risk EGFR-mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer when treated with amivantimab/lazertinib.

Expert perspectives on next-generation sequencing for patients with non–small cell lung cancer, highlighting challenges and the differences between RNA and DNA testing.