LUNG CANCER

The trial is evaluating the safety and efficacy of taletrectinib in ROS1 NSCLC. Taletrectinib is a novel TKI.

During a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Roundtable event, Melissa L. Johnson, MD, director, discussed the case of 66-year-old man with non–small cell lung cancer.

During an interview,Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MD, discussed long-term care and outcome disparities of lung cancer in the United States.

In an interview with Targeted Therapies in Oncology, Nicholas J. Robert, MD, discussed what the results to date of the MYLUNG study mean for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

The phase CANOPY-1 study has missed its co primary end points, but signals observed in a non–small cell lung cancer subgroup warrant further investigation.

Data continue to support the use of RET inhibitors is patients with RET fusion-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Following the FDA approval of sotorasib for the treatment of KRAS G12C-positive non–small cell lung cancer, there is a great deal of interest in the KRAS inhibitor and its potential benefit.

Small cell lung cancer is the most aggressive form of lung cancer and mostly occurs in smokers. Although the disease has proved to be sensitive to chemotherapy and radiation, responses are short and those who relapse have short survival.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Solange Peters, MD, discussed the significance of the 3-year follow-up analysis of the CheckMate 743 study of nivolumab/ipilimumab in mesothelioma.

Data from the phase 3 POSEIDON trial were presented during the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

In a 73-year-old patient, a PET scan revealed activity in the left upper lobe mass, supraclavicular nodal areas, and liver lesions, and an MRI discovered 1 small asymptomatic brain lesion. This lead to a diagnosis of stage T3N3M1-IV extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

A 59-year-old man with a history of smoking, hypertension, and osteoarthritis presented with chest pain, cough, and dyspnea.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Nino Balanchivadze, MD, FACP, discussed the toxicity profile of platinum pemetrexed with pembrolizumab in patients with nonsquamous NSCLC treated in the KEYNOTE-189 study and how demographics and clinical characteristics may impact treatment.

An otherwise healthy 60-year-old White woman presented with a nonproductive cough. She was was later diagnosed with NSCLC.

A 59-year-old White man presented with chest pain, cough, and dyspnea. The patient was diagnosed with poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the lung.

In a patient case reviewed by Gilberto De Lima Lopes, MD, a 59-year-old man presented with chest pain, cough, and dyspnea.

A 59-year-old man presented with dyspnea on exertion, fatigue, anorexia, and a 5-lb weight loss. He received the diagnosis of stage IVA adenocarcinoma and had an ECOG performance status of 1.

New NCCN guidelines are available for oncologists on treating and counseling patients with small cell lung cancer.

Solange Peters, MD, PhD, the president of the European Society of Medical Oncology, discusses the use of immunotherapy for the treatment of mesothelioma.

Molecular testing for a patient with lung cancer revealed a RET fusion and PD-L1 expression of 80%.

In this case scenario, a 59-year-old White man presented with chest pain, cough, and dyspnea. The patient was later diagnosis with non–small cell lung cancer.

In an interview prior to the NY Symposium, Perez-Soler, reviewed several areas of development in the lung cancer field that will be addressed during this year’s meeting.

During a Targeted Oncology™ Cased-Based Roundtable event, Meghan Mooradian, MD, discussed the case of a 73-year-old patient with extensive stage-small cell lung cancer.

According to early clinical trial results, taletrectinib can induce responses in patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

Robert Coleman, MD, FACOG, FACS, discussed how immunotherapy in lung cancer has been widely accepted and adopted in the community oncology setting.