LUNG CANCER

Nurse Practitioner Lauren Welch and Dr Michelle Shiller explain if and when they would offer repeat liquid or tissue biopsies to a patient with mNSCLC, and discuss how often patients request “serial biopsies” for detecting treatment response and/or disease progression.

A key opinion leader muses on the treatments she would consider for a patient with mNSCLC, an EGFR exon 20 mutation, and brain metastases.

Shirish M. Gadgeel, MD, MBBS, discusses the results of the KRYSTAL-1 trial trial of adagrasib in patients with KRAS-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Joshua Sabari, MD, a thoracic medical oncologist at NYU Langone Health Perlmutter Cancer Center in New York, NY reviews clinical trial data and explains the rationale of using tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment.

An interim overall survival analysis of the novel therapy sitravatinib combined with nivolumab has cleared the way for a continuation of the phase 3 SAPPHIRE study in patients with advanced non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer.

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Gregory Riely, MD, PhD, discussed with participants the adverse event management and expected efficacy of mobocertinib for patients with non–small cell lung cancer and an EGFR exon 20 insertion. This is the second of 2 articles based on this event.

Edward B. Garon, MD, MS, provides an overview of the phase 3 CANOPY-A study.

The panel reviews the first- and second-line treatment options for the patient in the presented case, before and after knowing her molecular testing results.

Michelle Shiller, DO, AP/CP, MGP, describes the process of tissue biopsy testing at her institution from start to finish, and Zosia Piotrowska, MD, explains the likelihood of targetable alterations in cases of mNSCLC in patients with no smoking history.

Clinically meaningful differentiation across efficacy measures were seen in patients administered domvanalimb in combination with zimberleimab or etrumadenant vs zimberelimab monotherapy.

In this companion article, Dr Paul Bunn discuss the implications from the pooled results of trilaciclib on chemotherapy induced myelosuppression (CIM) and reviews management strategies for patients that might develop neutropenia while on chemotherapy for the treatment of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC).

Dr Paul Bunn briefly reviews key efficacy data from a pooled analyses of trilaciclib in chemotherapy induced myelosuppression and discusses strategies to manage neutropenia in patients receiving chemotherapy for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC).

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Rafael Santana-Davila, MD, discussed 3-year data on overall survival and subgroup analysis for the CheckMate 9LA trial of ipilimumab, nivolumab, and 2 cycles of chemotherapy.

On the heels of a negative ODAC vote, poziotinib has was not approved by the FDA on it PDUFA date, and the developer of poziotinib will stop development immediately.

Updated analysis from the phase 1/2 ARROW study evaluating pralsetinib in patients with RET fusion-positive non–small cell lung cancer showed the agent to be well tolerated and to elicit clinical activity at a dose of 400 mg daily.

Joel Neal, MD, PhD, presents the case of a 66-year-old woman with no smoking history and a diagnosis of EGFR exon 20 mutation-positive mNSCLC.

Zosia Piotrowska, MD, explains molecular testing methods that can discover molecular alterations in common biomarkers in patients with mNSCLC.

A 5-year survival update of CheckMate 227 support the use of nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Surabhi Pathak, MD, reviews current and upcoming targeted treatments in patients with non–small cell lung cancer for Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Eric S. Nadler, MD, MPP, discussed the data supporting the use of targeted therapy for patients with non–small cell lung cancer and an EGFR exon 20 insertion.

Updated data from the phase 3 CheckMate 9LA trial showed that the combination of nivolumab, ipilimumab, and 2 cycles of chemotherapy elicited survival benefit in patients with treatment-naïve metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Updated results of the EMPOWER-Lung1 trial of cemiplimab in patients advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer showed improvements in overall survival, progression-free survival, and overall response rate.

Tepotinib was able to provide clinically meaningful activity in patients with high MET amplification non–small cell lung cancer in the VISION study, according to Xiuning Le, MD, PhD.

Nurse Practitioner Lauren Welch and Dr Michelle Shiller share whether next-generation sequencing is reflexively ordered at their institutions, turnaround times for this type of testing, and which panels they typically choose.

Drs Shiller and Piotrowska discuss use of broad genomic profiling according to the patient’s histologic subtype of NSCLC.

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Gregory Riely, MD, discussed the case of a patient with advanced non–small cell lung cancer who had an EGFR exon 20 insertion. This is the first of 2 articles based on this event.

While information has come out stating the negative effects of e-cigarettes on lung health, questions regarding the longer-term safety of these products remain due to their limited timespan on the market.

A lung cancer expert describes the common adverse events he sees with immunotherapy in mNSCLC, and the available management strategies.

Edward B. Garon, MD, MS, shares his biomarker testing protocols for patients with NSCLC and highlights the most important biomarkers for guiding therapy.

Dr Edward B. Garon explains the rationale for treating patients with mNSCLC with a frontline combination of chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors.