Acute Admissions Rates for Lung Cancer Patients Up During Pandemic, Not Linked to COVID-19
Data from a single-center study in Scotland suggested that there were more patients with lung cancer admitted acutely with cancer, non-COVID-19-related illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Early and late lockdown […] Read more
Modeling Analyses Show That Expansions in Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines to Better Capture Underrepresented Populations Still Need Work
Kara Nyberg, PhDTwo abstracts presented at the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer shed light on how changes in current screening guidelines can influence lung cancer detection rates, specifically among underrepresented populations. […] Read more
Young Investigators Awarded Grants to Study COVID-19 and Lung Cancer
Lung Ambition Alliance to award four new Junior Faculty Research Grants. Four early-career researchers have been selected to receive the Lung Ambition Alliance Junior Faculty Grants for the Study of […] Read more
The IASLC has formed an alliance with the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC), Guardant Health, and AstraZeneca to accelerate the pace of lung cancer survival worldwide. This collaborative effort—known as […] Read more
Use of Predictive Biomarkers, Incorporating Chemotherapy—What Is Best When Using Immunotherapy in Advanced NSCLC?
Kara Nyberg, PhDOncologists currently have three main therapeutic strategies to choose from when managing patients with advanced NSCLC who lack targetable mutations: immunotherapy alone, immunotherapy-immunotherapy combinations, or immunotherapy-chemotherapy combinations. So how does […] Read more
Amivantamab for Exon 20-Related NSCLC: Excitement in the Patient Community We look forward to Dr. Joshua Sabari’s presentation during the oral abstract presentation session “OA04: new Data from Rare EGFR […] Read more
Read the full articles for detailed summaries of each presentation. TALENT: This national lung cancer screening study conducted in Taiwan in 12,011 individuals, uncovered the presence of lung cancer in […] Read more
KEYNOTE-598: Dual PD-1 and CTLA-4 Checkpoint Blockade Confers No Therapeutic Benefit Beyond PD-1 Blockade Alone in PD-L1–Positive NSCLC
Kara Nyberg, PhDPatients with metastatic NSCLC with a PD-L1 tumor proportion score (TPS) ≥ 50% face greater toxicity without the benefit of enhanced efficacy when ipilimumab is combined with pembrolizumab in the […] Read more
LCMC3 Findings Indicate Neoadjuvant Atezolizumab Safe, Efficacious in Resectable Stage IB-IIIB NSCLC
Kara Nyberg, PhDPrimary results of the phase II Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium (LCMC) 3 clinical trial suggest that neoadjuvant atezolizumab may be a worthwhile treatment option for selected patients with resectable stage […] Read more
Lung Cancer Screening Study in East Asia Successful at Identifying Early-Stage Disease
TALENT, a national lung cancer screening study conducted in Taiwan in 12,011 individuals, uncovered the presence of lung cancer in 2.6% of the study population (Abstract PS01.02). These results are […] Read more