Lung Cancer

The FDA approved a generic form of pemetrexed for injection as a single-agent in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer that has not progressed after 4 cycles of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.

Early interim data from the registrational phase 2 TRIDENT-1 study of repotrectinib was reported by Turning Point Therapeutics, as well as regulatory feedback from the FDA regarding the TRIDENT-1 trial design.

These findings suggest that the current lung cancer screening guidelines undercount African Americans and should therefore be modified to avoid worsening the observed disparities between white and African American ever-smokers in lung cancer outcomes.

If approved, durvalumab could be administered intravenously every 4 weeks at a fixed dose of 1500 mg in unresectable stage III NSCLC after chemoradiation therapy and in previously treated advanced bladder cancer.

The FDA granted priority review to the new drug application for trilaciclib for patients with small cell lung cancer being treated with chemotherapy.

The GioTag study demonstrated that sequential afatinib and osimertinib improved overall survival among patients from the US with epidermal growth factor receptor mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer and a T790M resistance mutation.

Data from the phase 3 CheckMate-743 trial showed a statistically significant overall survival benefit for patients with previously untreated, unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma when treated with nivolumab plus ipilimumab.

The FDA approved Guardant360 CDx, the first liquid biopsy companion diagnostic that also uses next-generation sequencing technology to identify patients with any solid malignant neoplasm.

Pfizer Inc.’s phase 3 CROWN trial examining lorlatinib to treat patients with ALK-positive NSCLC met its primary end point of improving progression-free survival when compared to crizotinib.

Researchers suggested that based on their findings, increased efforts are needed to implement intervention strategies tailored to local settings to effectively decrease the global lung cancer burden and reduce health inequality.

This study created and assessed a parsimonious radiomic model that was able to identify a vulnerable subset of screen-detected lung cancers that are associated with poor outcome.

The FDA granted breakthrough therapy designation to osimertinib for the adjuvant treatment of patients with early-stage epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated non-small cell lung cancer after complete tumor resection with curative intent.

The study is evaluating poziotinib in patients who were previously treated for non-small cell lung cancer with HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations.

Though a significant shift in coverage frameworks was detected in this study, future research should continue to monitor coverage and its possible impact on test utilization.

The expert from the Fox Chase Cancer Center discussed a paper recently published regarding alternative multidisciplinary management options for patients with NSCLC during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The deep learning survival neural network model demonstrated the potential to provide personalized treatment recommendations based on real clinical data in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Patients with chemotherapy-naïve, locally advanced, or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer who were treated with tiragolumab plus an anti-PD-L1 agent showed better efficacy versus single-agent checkpoint inhibitor therapy alone.

The findings support ctDNA testing in patients who are undergenotyped at the time of diagnosis and as a primary option at the time of progression on targeted therapies.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) showed favorable clinical activity with a high objective response rate and durable responses in patients with HER2-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

The study demonstrated modest survival benefits in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer who received the combination of pembrolizumab and etoposide plus platinum (EP).

The addition of durvalumab to standard chemotherapy continued to demonstrate an improvement in overall survival for patients with treatment-naïve extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

Combining tislelizumab with chemotherapy improved progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone as a frontline treatment in Chinese patients with advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer.

Patients enrolled in this open-label trial have p53-mutated extensive disease small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and are being treated with second-line topotecan following administration of ALRN-6924.

Tepotinib demonstrated durable clinical activity in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer who harbor a MET exon 14 skipping mutation identified through liquid or tissue biopsy.

The updated findings indicated that alectinib demonstrated a clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival compared with crizotinib in patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer.

In this examination of 102 patients with lung cancer and COVID-19, researchers found that COVID-19 is associated with high burden of severity in this patient population.

This study found that cancer screening decisions among older adults with limited life expectancy were not always informed or intentional and were subject to multiple complex factors.

The FDA approved lurbinectedin for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic small cell lung cancer under accelerated approval based on overall response rate and duration of response in a phase 2 study.

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, of the Yale Cancer Center discussed the future of lung cancer treatment to follow the phase III ADAURA trial regarding osimertinib as adjuvant therapy to treat NSCLC presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.

In this retrospective cohort study, the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors among patients with advanced NSCLC with negative, low, or untested PD-L1 expression was found to have increased over time.