EGFR+ Lung Cancer

General Cancer

Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced its decision to withdraw a supplemental biologics license application currently with the FDA seeking frontline approval for the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer with tumor mutational burden ≥10 mutations per megabase.

Heather A. Wakelee, MD, discusses the use of osimertinib as a frontline treatment option for patients with <em>EGFR</em>-positive lung cancer.

Both overall survival and progression-free survival were improved in patients with <em>EGFR</em>-mutant nonsquamous cell lung cancer who were treated with the combination of atezolizumab, bevacizumab, and chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy, according to an exploratory analysis of the IMpower150 study.

Patients who continued receiving osimertinib after their non&ndash;small cell lung cancer had progressed demonstrated a prolonged benefit beyond the initial progression event, according to a retrospective analysis of 118 patients from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.

Michael Gieske, MD, discusses how his community center was able to implement a lung cancer screening program.

A retrospective analysis of survival data from patients with metastatic non&ndash;small cell lung cancer showed that patients who received treatment at academic centers had better survival rates than those treated at community-based centers, and this disparity was more pronounced when patients were stratified by histology.

A supplemental biologics license application submitted to the FDA for&nbsp;atezolizumab, carboplatin, and nab-paclitaxel has been accepted. The application, based on findings from the&nbsp;phase III IMpower130 trial, is seeking the agent&#39;s approval for&nbsp;patients with metastatic nonsquamous non&ndash;small cell lung cancer.

D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD,&nbsp;discusses the crowded landscape of oncogene-driven non&ndash;small cell lung cancer.

Increasing clinical relevance of less common gene signatures and alterations is leading to a benefit from broad-panel next-generation sequencing testing for patients with metastatic non&ndash;small cell lung cancer, according to an expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The use of big data is revolutionizing many industries, allowing greater insights by drilling into evidence with more detail.

Due to the significant decline in smoking and an increase in advances for early cancer detection and screening, the cancer death rate has declined 27% in the United States from 1991 to 2016, according to the American Cancer Society&rsquo;s annual report on cancer rates.

A look back at all the&nbsp;FDA news&nbsp;that happened in the month of&nbsp;December 2018, including several new approvals, an accelerated approval, and a priority review.

To assist clinicians in the day-to-day management of their patients, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer has developed its first guidelines to help direct immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment of NSCLC.

Adding aggressive, local radiation or surgery to frontline systemic therapy in patients with stage IV NSCLC whose disease has spread to a limited number of sites resulted in improved overall survival, according to findings presented by Daniel Gomez, MD, and colleagues at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology in San Antonio, Texas.

Diwakar Davar, MBBS, MSc, discusses how data from the phase I trial of TSR-022, an anti-TIM-3 monoclonal antibody, and TSR-042, an anti-PD-1 agent, impact the treatment of patients with both melanoma and lung cancer.

The review period for&nbsp;a supplemental biologics license application for first-line treatment with pembrolizumab monotherapy for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic nonsquamous or squamous non&ndash;small cell lung cancer with PD-L1 expression (tumor proportion score) of &ge;1% and no&nbsp;<em>EGFR&nbsp;</em>or&nbsp;<em>ALK&nbsp;</em>genomic tumor aberrations has been extended by the FDA, according to a press release by Merck,&nbsp;the manufacturer of pembrolizumab.

Several oncology experts discuss the FDA approvals they found most significant in 2018.