Gemcitabine Maintenance in Lung Cancer Could Be Low Cost Alternative
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.
In this video, Maurice Pérol, MD, of the Cancer Research Center of Lyon in France, discusses a study that tested an alternative maintenance strategy for advanced non-squamous non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), determined by a patient’s response to induction chemotherapy.
Patients in the study were randomized 1:1 to either cisplatin/gemcitabine induction followed by gemcitabine maintenance in those with an objective response and then second-line pemetrexed, or switch maintenance with pemetrexed for those with stable disease; vs standard cisplatin/pemetrexed induction followed by maintenance pemetrexed.
Pérol presented the results of the study (abstract 9003) at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago..
Eric Ko on Combining Radiation Therapy With Immunotherapy to Treat Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
September 18th 2018ONCOLOGY spoke with Eric Ko, MD, PhD, who recently published a review article with his colleagues on strategies for combining radiation therapy with immunotherapy for the treatment of non–small-cell lung cancer.
