Biomarker-Driven Lung Cancer

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Aaron Lisberg, MD spoke on the importance of molecular testing for patients with lung adenocarcinoma, and provided tips for choosing between immunotherapy and a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

The FDA has granted fast track designation to bemcentinib in combination with an anti-PD-L1 agent as a potential treatment option for patients with AXL-positive advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Patients with previously treated non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations showed promising preliminary anti-tumor activity and an acceptable safety profile across all of the doses tested in a phase 1 trial of CLN-081.

In the phase 1/2 ARROW study, pralsentinib was found to be well-tolerated and showed durable responses as treatment of patients with RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer, including those who were not eligible for platinum-based therapy.

Joshua K. Sabari, MD, discusses the need for EGFR inhibitors designed specifically to treat patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer and an exon 20 insertion.

The FDA has approved Guardant360, a liquid biopsy companion diagnostic for tumor mutation profiling or comprehensive genomic profiling to identify patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer who have a KRAS G12C mutation and may benefit from sotorasib.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to sotorasib for the treatment of adult patients with KRAS G12C-mutated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, as determined by an FDA-approved test, who have received at least one prior systemic therapy.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Xiuning Le, MD, PhD, discuss the findings from cohort 5 of the ZENITH20 study including the strategy of splitting the dose in half to reduce adverse events associated with poziotinib.

In lung cancer, the historic absence of clear biomarkers to identify patients who could derive benefit from MET-specific therapy has kept the field from moving forward with potential therapies.

Xiuning Le, MD, PhD, discusses the reasoning behind splitting the dose of poziotinib dose in order to reduce adverse effects and improve efficacy for the treatment of EGFR- or HER2 exon 20–positive non–small cell lung cancer.

The combination of oleclumab and osimertinib was well-tolerated and demonstrated preliminary anti-tumor activity in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer with an EGFR mutation after progression on an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

Both KRAS and EGFR mutations have become increasingly important targets in non–small cell lung cancer. This is especially remarkable as KRAS was once considered an “untargetable mutation.”

Treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor entrectinib may lead to continued clinical benefit as treatment of patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer, including those with central nervous system metastases, according to an updated from an integrated analysis of 3 clinical trials.

Telisotuzumab vedotin monotherapy demonstrated a promising objective response rate and has a tolerable safety profile in patients with previously treated c-Met–positive advanced non–small cell lung cancer, according to findings from a phase 2 trial presented in a poster at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021.

Vivek Subbiah, MD, explored the treatment options for RET-fusion positive non–small cell lung cancer during a virtual Targeted Oncology Case-Based Roundtable event.

The FDA has granted a fast-track designation to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, poziotinib for the treatment of previously treated patients with non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor a HER2 exon 20 mutation.

The FDA accepted a new drug application for sotorasib and granted it a priority review for the treatment of patients with KRAS G12C–mutant locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer following at least 1 prior systemic treatment.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan induced a high objective response rate and durable responses among patients with HER2-mutant non–small cell lung cancer in a cohort of the phase 2 DESTINY Lung-01 trial, according to interim findings presented during the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer Singapore.

During a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Peer Perspectives event, Todd Bauer, MD, medical oncologist, Tennessee Oncology, discussed the results from clinical trials that include patients with RET-altered lung cancer to determine a treatment strategy for a 59-year-old patient.

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to tepotinib for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who harbor a MET exon 14 skipping alteration.

Larotrectinib was observed to be highly active and have a favorable safety profile in patients with advanced lung cancer whose tumors harbor an NTRK gene fusion, including those with central nervous system metastases.

Treatment with the next-generation ROS1 and TRK tyrosine kinase inhibitor repotrectinib is sustaining good objective responses and is tolerable in patients with ROS1 fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer, according to updated preliminary results from the phase 2 expansion 1 cohort of the ongoing phase 1/2 TRIDENT-1 clinical trial.

In the phase 3 VISION study, treatment with the MET inhibitor, tepotinib showed durable clinical activity as treatment of patients with MET exon 14 skipping non‒small cell lung cancer.

Lyudmila A. Bazhenova, MD, explains the impact of having larotrectinib results in a lung cancer cohort, as seen in a presentation of data from 14 patients, given during the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer Singapore.

Antitumor activity was demonstrated with trastuzumab deruxtecan treatment in patients with HER2-overexpressing non–small cell lung cancer, regardless of HER2 expression levels, according to interim findings from a cohort of the phase 2 DESTINY Lung-01 trial.

Sotorasib demonstrated significant benefit in patients with KRAS G12C–mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer, according to results from the phase 2 portion of the CodeBreaK 100 trial to be presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Larger, retrospectives studies are needed after NRG1 fusions were detected in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Tony S. K. Mok, BMSc, MD, FRCPC, discusses the ADAURA trial of osimertinib in patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Vivek Subbiah, MD, discussed the role of selpercatinib as treatment of patients with RET fusion-positive NSCLC, which is supported by findings from the LIBRETTO-001 study.

Patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer who have resistance to the ROS1 and ALK inhibitor crizotinib had intracranial and systemic responses to brigatinib, according to findings from a small cohort of patients.