Latest Conference Articles

January 31st 2021, 7:25pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 31, 2021 - Repotrectinib, a next-generation ROS1 and TRK TKI, has demonstrated encouraging objective responses with acceptable tolerability in patients with ROS1 fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer.

January 31st 2021, 6:10pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 31, 2021 - The latest data from the IMpower133 trial shows that maintenance therapy with atezolizumab plus carboplatin and etoposide improves overall survival and progression-free survival for patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer.

January 31st 2021, 5:52pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

Tepotinib demonstrated durable clinical activity in patients with MET exon 14 skipping non‒small cell lung cancer.

January 31st 2021, 5:18pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

Byoung Chul Cho, MD, PhD, discusses the updated efficacy reported with repotrectinib in TKI-naïve patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer.

January 31st 2021, 5:14pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

Martin Reck, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy of maintenance atezolizumab in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

January 30th 2021, 8:38pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 30, 2021 - Neoadjuvant atezolizumab followed by surgery resulted in a major pathologic response in 21% of patients with resectable stage IB-IIIB non–small cell lung cancer, as well as significant surgical outcomes with a high rate of R0 resection.

January 30th 2021, 7:30pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 30, 2021 - Data from the phase 3 CONFIRM trial support single-agent nivolumab as an effective treatment approach for patients with previously treated malignant mesothelioma.

January 30th 2021, 5:33pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

Stephen Liu, MD, discusses emerging research on antibody–drug conjugate in non–small cell lung cancer that were presented during the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

January 30th 2021, 3:32pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD, discusses the results from the primary analysis of the CodeBreaK 100, which examined sotorasib in patients with KRAS G12C–mutated non–small cell lung cancer.

January 30th 2021, 2:17am

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - Health-related quality of life was maintained for patients with EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer who received treatment with adjuvant osimertinib versus placebo, with no clinically meaningful differences noted between study arms.

January 30th 2021, 12:45am

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - Pembrolizumab plus ipilimumab did not improve survival and had higher rates of toxicity versus pembrolizumab monotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who had a PD-L1 tumor proportion score of 50% or greater, and did not harbor EGFR or ALK aberrations.

January 30th 2021, 12:15am

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 — Mobocertinib (formerly TAK-788) demonstrated clinically meaningful benefit and a manageable safety profile in previously treated patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer who have EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.

January 29th 2021, 11:09pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - The investigational antibody-drug conjugate datopotamab deruxtecan demonstrated encouraging antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile in patients with advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

January 29th 2021, 10:57pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - The HER3-directed antibody-drug conjugate patritumab deruxtecan continued to demonstrate clinically meaningful antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile at the recommended expansion dose of 5.6 mg/kg in pretreated patients with metastatic or unresectable EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer.

January 29th 2021, 10:28pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - Thirty percent fewer new lung cancer cases have been diagnosed during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic versus pre-pandemic, with more symptomatic and severe cases of non–small cell lung cancer diagnosed during this period.

January 29th 2021, 8:35pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - Adjuvant osimertinib was found to improve disease-free survival in patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer, irrespective of previous adjuvant chemotherapy received or disease stage.

January 29th 2021, 6:49pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - The antibody-drug conjugate fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki demonstrated antitumor activity in patients with HER2-overexpressing non–small cell lung cancer, irrespective of expression levels.

January 29th 2021, 6:16pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - Nab-paclitaxel proved to be noninferior to docetaxel, having showcased improved progression-free survival, overall survival, and overall response rate in patients with previously treated advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

January 29th 2021, 5:26pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

Margarita Majem, MD, PhD, discusses the patient-reported outcomes with osimertinib in EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer from the pivotal phase 3 ADAURA trial.

January 29th 2021, 4:57pm

IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer

January 29, 2021 - The combination of pembrolizumab plus concurrent chemoradiation therapy showed antitumor activity in patients with unresectable, locally advanced, stage III non–small cell lung cancer, regardless of PD-L1 status or tumor histology.