Posted: May 27, 2019 ALCHEMIST (Adjuvant Lung Cancer Enrichment Marker Identification and Sequencing Trial) is a large umbrella trial evaluating patients with early-stage NSCLC who have undergone complete tumor resection. As a whole, the trial will examine the role of erlotinib for those patients with EGFR mutations, crizotinib for those patients who have ALK rearrangements, and…

By Paul A. Bunn Jr., MD Posted: May 27, 2019 It is indeed an exciting time in lung cancer therapeutics, and we have reasons to be optimistic. To put these advances in context, I remember the early days (1970s) of lung cancer research at the National Cancer Institute, when we conducted 12 consecutive phase II trials…

By Cornedine Jannette de Gooijer, MD; Maria Disselhorst, MD; and Paul Baas, MD, PhD Posted: May 27, 2019 Dr. Cornedine Jannette de Gooijer Until 2015, few changes occurred with respect to available therapies for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). Luckily, a renewed interest in MPM with emphasis on immunotherapy has led to several phase II and III…

Posted: May 27, 2019 In March 2019, another successful Best of the World Lung Cancer Conference (BWLCC) was held in Lima, Peru. This was the fourth year in a row that the IASLC-LATAM (Latin American) Group organized a BWLCC in Lima. More than 160 attendees were provided with the most scientifically important presentations from the IASLC…

Posted: May 27, 2019 Nasser H. Hanna, MD, is the Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation Professor of Lung Cancer Clinical Research at Indiana University School of Medicine, and he specializes in the study and management of all forms of lung cancer. Dr. Hanna spoke with the IASLC Lung Cancer News in detail about the questions—…