Oncology Peer Review On-The-Go: Future Directions in Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment

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In the final part of the small cell lung cancer podcast series, CancerNetwork® and Wade Iams, MD, discuss the future of treating patients with this disease.

The final episode of CancerNetwork’s 4-part series on small cell lung cancer (SCLC) welcomes back Wade Iams, MD, a thoracic medical oncologist at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In this conversation, Iams looks to the future of SCLC treatments, touching on topics including extending response durations for patients, emerging therapies for extensive stage SCLC, exciting research on the horizon, and more.

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Clinical trials in small cell lung cancer appear to be more “pragmatic” with their inclusion criteria than before, according to Anne Chiang, MD, PhD.
CAR T-cell therapies or other agents that impact the immune system in the long term may be important to keep in mind for the management of SCLC.
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