Research

*December 2022* The treatment of LUAD-LM is particularly challenging and intrathecal pemetrexed is a potential therapeutic strategy for it, but still faces many obstacles caused by repeated lumbar puncture. We performed a prospective phase I study on 33 refractory LUAD-LM patients, aimed at assessing the safety, pharmacokinetic and clinical activity…

*December 2022* Take a behind-the-scenes look at how researchers study lung cancer. Join lung cancer researcher Dr. Triparna Sen as she digs into what’s known about how EGFR-positive NSCLC cells transform into SCLC to escape targeted therapy treatment. SCLC transformation is a common resistance mechanism for multiple types of NSCLC,…

*November 2022* Melina E. Marmarelis, MD, medical director of Penn Medicine Mesothelioma and Pleural Program and assistant professor of medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, reports the rationale and key findings from the Chrysalis-2 trial (NCT04077463) of patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A cohort…

*November 2022* The combination of tepotinib (Tepmetko) and gefitinib (Iressa) demonstrated an improvement in both progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) compared with chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who developed MET-driven resistance to prior EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), according to findings from the final analysis of…

*November 2022* Sunvozertinib (DZD9008) has demonstrated activity in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring an EGFR exon 20 insertion mutation across mutation types and prior treatments, according to data pooled from 3 phase 1/2 clinical trials. Findings from the clinical trials were presented at the International Associationfor the Study of…

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*November 2022* Never smokers represent a subgroup of patients with advanced lung cancer whose genetic makeup necessitates the need for targeted therapies and clinical trials aimed at improving outcomes. Compared with smokers, defined as those who smoke over 100 cigarettes in their life, never smokers have associated germline mutations for…

*December 2022* Jill Feldman, EGFR Resisters Co-Founder As someone who has been fighting lung cancer indirectly and directly for almost 40 years, I have witnessed and celebrated the rapidly changing landscape of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. After losing 2 grandparents and my dad to lung cancer when I was…

*November 2022* Osimertinib (Tagrisso) remains the preferred first-line therapy for patients with EGFR-mutated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Zosia Piotrowska, MD, MHS, told her audience at the 17th Annual New York Lung Cancers Symposium®.1 However, for those with classic EGFR mutations, exon 19 deletions and L858R substitutions, she believes the…