ILCN Lung Cancer News
ILCN Lung Cancer News


  • FDA Perspectives on the Use of Liquid Biopsy in NSCLC

    FDA Perspectives on the Use of Liquid Biopsy in NSCLC

    Industry News & Regulatory Approvals, Meeting News

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognizes the value of liquid biopsy in managing patients with cancer, and the agency is actively working to bring these assays to the clinic. Harpreet Singh, MD, Director of the Division of Oncology 2, shed light on past FDA efforts related to approval of liquid biopsy technologies as well as those currently underway.  “Liquid biopsies for cancer require close interaction between the oncologist…


  • Biopsy Options Create New Decision-making Points for Clinicians

    Biopsy Options Create New Decision-making Points for Clinicians

    Meeting News

    Understanding the differences in liquid biopsy approaches, as well as how they complement tissue, can be important to therapeutic selection and outcomes.


  • The RAMES Study: A New Strategy of Targeting Angiogenesis in Mesothelioma

    The RAMES Study: A New Strategy of Targeting Angiogenesis in Mesothelioma

    Federica Grosso, MD, et al.
    Meeting News

    At this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology Virtual Meeting, the final results of the RAMES study were presented.1 RAMES was a prospective, placebo-controlled, phase II, randomized study in which patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) that progressed after platinum-based chemotherapy and pemetrexed were assigned to receive gemcitabine 1,000 mg/m2 on Days 1 and 8…


  • Elimination of Clinical Trial Disparities Requires a New Lens for Viewing Justice, New Approach to
            Patient’s Role

    Elimination of Clinical Trial Disparities Requires a New Lens for Viewing Justice, New Approach to Patient’s Role

    Meeting News

    By Joy Curzio Although there has been tremendous progress in lung cancer over the past 10 years, with a number of new drug indications being approved in the United States this year alone, disparities in clinical trial participation look very much the same now as they did a decade or two ago. Janet Freeman-Daily, co-founder…


  • Immunotherapy, TKIs for Resectable/Resected NSCLC: Dr. Masahiro Tsuboi Provides a Comprehensive Overview
            of Promising Phase II Data, Phase III Status

    Immunotherapy, TKIs for Resectable/Resected NSCLC: Dr. Masahiro Tsuboi Provides a Comprehensive Overview of Promising Phase II Data, Phase III Status

    Meeting News

    By Jill Daigneault, PhD Surgical outcomes for early-stage NSCLC are still very poor due to the high rate of recurrence through distant metastases. It is likely that these distant metastases are present at initial resection as undetectable micrometastases. In order to target these potential sites of recurrence in early-stage patients, trials using immunotherapy (IO) and…


  • First-line Sintilimab Plus Platinum-Based Chemotherapy Prolongs PFS in Advanced Nonsquamous NSCLC

    First-line Sintilimab Plus Platinum-Based Chemotherapy Prolongs PFS in Advanced Nonsquamous NSCLC

    Meeting News

    By Kara Nyberg, PhD Adding sintilimab, an anti-PD-1 antibody, to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy enhances efficacy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC. In the randomized, placebo-controlled, phase III ORIENT-11 trial conducted in China, median progression-free survival (PFS) reached 5.0 months with chemotherapy but improved to 8.9 months when sintilimab was paired with chemotherapy…


  • Managing lung cancer in the time of COVID-19

    Managing lung cancer in the time of COVID-19

    Meeting News

    Register Now REGISTER NOW for the Medscape Education and IASLC Exclusive Webinar: Immunotherapy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Addressing Clinical Case Challenges in Lung Cancer on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 @ 8:00 am EDT. This webinar will discuss the key issues regarding the use of immunotherapy today, including how and when to start and stop therapy,…



  • Paul Baas, MD – IASLC Virtual Presidential Symposium Presentation

    Paul Baas, MD – IASLC Virtual Presidential Symposium Presentation

    Meeting News

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  • TRACERx Data Show That Tracking MRD With ctDNA Heralds Disease Relapse

    TRACERx Data Show That Tracking MRD With ctDNA Heralds Disease Relapse

    Meeting News

    By Kara Nyberg, PhD Posted: June 24, 2020 New findings from the TRACERx lung study underscore the value of using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to predict NSCLC relapse postsurgery based on the detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). Moreover, the results appear sufficiently robust to begin to support use of ctDNA as a biomarker for…