ILCN Lung Cancer News
ILCN Lung Cancer News


  • More Than a Partnership: How Oncogene-Driven Patient Groups Are Mobilizing the Global Community to Drive
            Research

    More Than a Partnership: How Oncogene-Driven Patient Groups Are Mobilizing the Global Community to Drive Research

    Upal Basu Roy
    Patient Advocacy & Survivorship

    It has been just over a year since we reported how oncogene-driven patient advocacy groups are disrupting the research paradigm in lung cancer.1 We have indeed come a long way since the discovery of the first EGFR mutation in lung cancer in 2004.2 ,3 Even amid the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the lung…


  • Broad Molecular Testing in Lung Cancer: The Struggle to Translate Recommendations to Clinical Practice

    Broad Molecular Testing in Lung Cancer: The Struggle to Translate Recommendations to Clinical Practice

    Evolving Standards of Care

    By Kara Nyberg, PhD Posted: June 24, 2020 Over the past decade, lung cancer has emerged as a shining example of how precision medicine can dramatically improve patient outcomes. Up to 85% of patients with lung cancer harbor potentially actionable driver mutations, and matching targeted therapy to druggable alterations in the first-line setting prolongs survival…


  • Stunning Progress Achieved in Lung Cancer Treatment Over the Last Decade

    Stunning Progress Achieved in Lung Cancer Treatment Over the Last Decade

    Kara Nyberg, PhD
    Evolving Standards of Care

    By Kara Nyberg, PhD Posted: April 16, 2020 After decades of failed clinical trials and persistently dismal lung cancer survival outcomes, the 2010s breathed new life into the beleaguered field of lung cancer research. Treatment progress gained momentum and finally reached a tipping point in the mid-2010s, with the number of advances over the last…


  • Histologic Transformation From NSCLC to SCLC: A Mechanism of Resistance to Osimertinib and Other Agents
            Targeting EGFR Mutations

    Histologic Transformation From NSCLC to SCLC: A Mechanism of Resistance to Osimertinib and Other Agents Targeting EGFR Mutations

    Systemic, Targeted, & Immune Therapies

    By Denis Moro-Sibilot, MD, MSc Posted: April 16, 2020 Dr. Denis Moro-Sibilot EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are the standard of care for mutated EGFR NSCLC. Today, one of the burning questions is whether to select the most recent third-generation agent or to combine a first- or second-generation TKI with chemotherapy or antiangiogenic agents and…


  • Letter to the Editor: Patient-Driven Research

    Letter to the Editor: Patient-Driven Research

    Patient Advocacy & Survivorship

    By Jill Feldman, EGFR Resisters Co-Founder Posted: December 11, 2019   Jill Feldman I was so glad to see the article by Dr. Amy Moore on PDX models in the October issue. As a Co-Founder of the EGFR Resisters, our collaboration with the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer is empowering patients to participate in studies that…


  • Adjuvant EGFR-TKI for Resected NSCLC: Who, When, and Where?

    Adjuvant EGFR-TKI for Resected NSCLC: Who, When, and Where?

    Evolving Standards of Care

    By Si-Yang Liu, MD, and Yi-Long Wu, MD Posted: November 12, 2019 Dr. Si-Yang Liu Dr. Yi-Long Wu In the twentieth century, adjuvant chemotherapy became the standard of care for resected NSCLC based on several clinical trials including IALT, JBR.10, ANITA, and a meta-analysis of individual patient data from the LACE trial. Adjuvant chemotherapy increased…