Lung Cancer

David Spigel, MD, presents a patient case of a 57-year-old woman with NSCLC, and Jaspal Singh, MD, MHS, discusses his approach to initial evaluation.

A panel of experts introduce themselves and explain their approaches to multidisciplinary care in treating non-small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to JBI-802 for the treatment of patients with small cell lung cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.

Jorge M. Mercado, MD, discusses the evolution of biopsy techniques in patients with lung cancer.

Max S. Topp, MD, discusses the safety profile of glofitamab in combination with R-CHOP in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Alexander Spira, MD, PhD, FACP, highlights the top advancements across non–small cell lung cancer in 2022, emphasized the need for increased genetic testing to inform treatment decisions, and previewed other agents under development.

The National Medical Products Administration of China has approved mobocertinib for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations and whose disease progressed on or following platinum-based chemotherapy.

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, highlights the advancement of CTLA-4–based combinations in non–small cell lung cancer treatment, the emergence of antibody-drug conjugates in non–small cell lung cancer, and the impact of the POSEIDON trial on the treatment landscape.

The Center for Drug Evaluation of China's National Medical Products Administration has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to IBI351 for the treatment of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring a KRAS G12C mutation who have received at least 1 prior line of systemic therapy.

Neoadjuvant treatment with SHR-1701 with or without chemotherapy followed by surgery or radiotherapy induced responses in more than half of patients with stage III unresectable non–small cell lung cancer and increased resectability in those assigned to definitive surgery.

The addition of abequolixron to docetaxel generated responses in patients with relapsed/refractory non–small cell lung cancer or small cell lung cancer.

Japan has approved durvalumab monotherapy and durvalumab plus tremelimumab for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, durvalumab plus tremelimumab and chemotherapy for unresectable, advanced, or recurrent non–small cell lung cancer, and durvalumab plus chemotherapy for curatively unresectable biliary tract cancer.

The FDA has approved FoundationOne Liquid CDx as a companion diagnostic for use with the selective TKI entrectinib. The assay identifies patients with ROS1-positive NSCLC or NTRK fusion–positive solid tumors who do not have a tissue sample available and who may be appropriate for entrectinib treatment.

Tumor treating fields plus standard-of-care therapies led to a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival vs SOC alone in patients with stage IV NSCLC who progressed while on or after platinum chemotherapy, meeting the primary end point of the LUNAR trial.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to the OverC Multi-Cancer Detection Blood Test for the early detection of cancers including esophageal, liver, lung, ovarian, and pancreatic in adults aged to 50 to 75 years with average risk.

The European Medicines Agency has validated an application for the use of trastuzumab deruxtecan for adults with previously treated unresectable or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors have activating HER2 mutations.

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, discusses the evaluation of immunotherapy combination regimens for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Closing out their review of treatment options for KRAS G12C–mutated NSCLC, expert oncologists look toward future utilization of novel targeted agents in this setting.

Centering discussion on KRAS inhibitors and associated clinical trials, Martin Dietrich, MD, PhD, and Joshua Sabari, MD, detail the second-line management of KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

Konstantinos Leventakos, MD, PhD, discusses the emergence of immunotherapy and lurbinectedin as beneficial treatments in small cell lung cancer, where osimertinib fits into the non–small cell lung cancer treatment paradigm, and more.

Key opinion leaders identify the first-line treatment armamentarium for patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

A brief review of how results from adequate molecular testing may help to inform the first-line management of non–small cell lung cancer.

Before closing out their discussion on IO therapy in non–small cell lung cancer, Melissa Johnson, MD, and Joshua Sabari, MD, identify treatment strategies in the setting of concomitant KRAS/p53 mutation.

The combination of domvanalimab plus zimberelimab with or without etrumadenant generated an improvement in overall response rate and progression-free survival compared with zimberelimab alone in patients with PD-L1–high metastatic non–small cell lung cancer, according to findings from the phase 2 ARC-7 trial.

The FDA’s accelerated approval of adagrasib for adult patients with KRAS G12C–mutated locally advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who have received at least 1 prior systemic therapy has provided a second KRAS G12C inhibitor option for patients.

The FDA has approved the FoundationOne® Liquid CDx as a companion diagnostic to identify patients with non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors have EGFR exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R substitutions.

The FDA has approved an additional indication for pemetrexed by injection, an alternative to standard pemetrexed, in combination with pembrolizumab and platinum-based chemotherapy for the initial treatment of patients with metastatic, nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer without EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.

Durvalumab monotherapy failed to elicit a statistically significant improvement in overall survival vs platinum-based chemotherapy as frontline treatment in patients with stage IV non–small cell lung cancer with at least 25% positivity of PD-L1 on tumor cells, or in a subgroup of patients at low risk of early mortality.

The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has accepted a marketing authorization application seeking approval for sugemalimab plus chemotherapy as first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

The FDA has approved a new indication for pafolacianine to aid surgeons in detecting lung cancer lesions in adult patients with known or suspected lung cancer.