For the phase 3 KEYNOTE-024 study, researchers randomly assigned 305 patients with advanced NSCLC of any histological type to 35 cycles of pembrolizumab or 4 to 6 cycles of investigator’s choice chemotherapy.
At the closing plenary session of WCLC, Paul A. Bunn, Jr, MD, presented a treatment algorithm for lung cancer and discussed where lung cancer research in North America is heading.
A previous analysis of the phase 2 BIRCH study showed that atezolizumab, a PD-L1 inhibitor, provides clinically meaningful and durable benefit as a first- and second-line therapy.
Exon 20 mutations account for 4% to 10% of EGFR mutations in NSCLC and are refractory to EGFR TKIs; there are no targeted therapies available for this patient population.
For this phase 2 study, researchers enrolled 39 patients with oligometastatic NSCLC to start pembrolizumab 200 mg every 3 weeks within 4 to 12 weeks of undergoing LAT.
ctDNA next generation sequencing of patient blood samples detected oncogenic drivers in 27 (36%) patients, including HER2 exon 20 insYVMA, BRAF L597Q, and MET exon14 mutations.
During a plenary presentation at the 18th annual WCLC, researchers presented patient-reported outcomes, including health-related QoL, disease symptoms, and physical function, from the phase 3 PACIFIC trial.
Researchers randomly assigned 56 treatment-naive patients with advanced NSCLC to 3 cohorts: nivolumab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin, nivolumab plus pemetrexed and cisplatin, and nivolumab plus paclitaxel and carboplatin.
For this cross-sectional study, researchers collected the data of 1030 adult patients with advanced NSCLC from medical chart reviews and various patient questionnaires.
One-hundred and eight patients received cisplatin plus docetaxel in the control arm; 392 patients in the experimental arm received varying treatments according to BRCA1 mRNA expression levels.
