UK & NETHERLANDS—Following the the AJO Podcast interview with Professor Harry de Koning MD PhD, from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, who discussed his research published in the New England Journal of Medicine that supports the widespread introduction of computed …
Second Study Confirms Lung Cancer CT Screening Cuts Deaths
NETHERLANDS—Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam—Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine has confirmed the viability of computed tomographic (CT) screening for detecting cases of lung cancer early in high-risk …
MUNICH— Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitors are as effective in “real world” clinical use for treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who test positive for ALK gene rearrangements as they are in clinical studies—even though randomized trials “cherry …
MUNICH—More than four years median overall survival was reported in patients treated with an inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) for their ALK gene rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a single-arm phase two study reported at the 2018 …
CHICAGO, IL—Patients whose non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) expressed more than one per cent of the programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) tumor proportion score (TPS) lived longer when treated with the anti programmed death 1 (PD-1) antibody pembrolizumab than a control …
Audio Journal of Oncology, January 2, 2017
COPENHAGEN—Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) expressing the programmed cell-death ligand 1 (PD-L1) protein responded better to initial treatment with the anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy pembrolizumab—and lived longer with fewer toxicities—than to standard …
The Audio Journal of Oncology
Reporting from the 2016 Congress of the European Society of Medical Oncology
COPENHAGEN—The anti-PD-L1 (programmed cell death ligand-1) immunotherapy agent atezolizumab extended overall survival when compared head-to-head with docetaxel among patients with previously-treated non-small cell …
COPENAGEN—Adding the PD-1 (programmed cell death protein 1) antibody pembrolizumab to standard first-line chemotherapy with carboplatin and pemetrexed for previously-untreated patients with advanced non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and good performance status significantly improved objective response rate (ORR) and progression-free …
COPENHAGEN—In a phase I study reported at the 2016 congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) six out of 15 patients with resectable early non-small cell lung cancer had “major pathological regression” to neo-adjuvant immunotherapy with nivolumab—the anti-PD1 …
LONDON, UK—Whole brain radiotherapy brought no benefit to patients whose non-small cell lung cancer had metastasized to the brain in research findings published in The Lancet and presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2016 Congress held in London (3-7 …
PETER HARPER, Guy’s Hospital, London