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ASCO 2032: What Will Be the Big Story in Lung Cancer?

*July 2022* — A roundtable of experts predict what the future holds for treatment of the disease New clinical research unveiled at the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting has the potential to significantly alter the treatment of lung cancer. But what will be the innovations we…

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Selecting Therapy for Advanced NSCLC With EGFR Mutations

*July 2022* Panelists review clinical trial data in the setting of EGFR-mutant advanced NSCLC and consider which therapy they would use at progression. Benjamin P. Levy, MD, Chaitali Nangia, MD, Patty and George Hoag Cancer Center, Jessica Donington, MD, MSCR, Jonathan Riess, MD, Alexander Spira, MD, PhD, FACP, Heather Wakelee,…

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Targeted Therapies Patient Forum 2022

*July 2022* This virtual program was presented on July 16th and is now available on demand. It is the 8th annual live patient forum where leading thoracic oncologists from around the world as well as lung cancer patients who are active within the patient advocacy community discuss subjects relevant to…

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Raising Kids While Battling Lung Cancer

By Juanita Segura for Lungcancer.net In November of 2014 when I was diagnosed with lung cancer my daughter was 17 years old and a senior in high school. My two boys were 19 and 20 years old and had already graduated from high school and were in college. My second…

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Dana Farber Webcast: Second Annual “Living with EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer: A Virtual Forum for Patients and Caregivers”

*June 2022* During this event, information about EGFR-mutant lung cancer, research advances, symptom management, as well as hearing from patients and caregivers were discussed. Watch the webcast here.

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Is There a Role for PD-L1 Inhibitors in EGFR-Mutant or ALK-Rearranged NSCLC?

*June 2022* John Heymach, MD, PhD, discusses the poor outcomes that have been observed with immunotherapy in patients with NSCLC and EGFR mutations or ALK rearrangements. An important exception to the use of PD-L1inhibitors as first-line therapy is for patients with oncogenic drivers. This is most strongly the case with…

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Duma Discusses the Unique Challenges of Women With Lung Cancer

*June 2022* In these podcasts, Narjust Duma, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and physician and associate director of the Cancer Equity Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses lung cancer in women. Lung cancer is far and away the leading cause of cancer deaths in American…

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2022 EGFR+ Lung Cancer Rapid Recap: The Evolving State of the Science in EGFR+ NSCLC

*June 2022* Presented by CEC ONCOLOGY with Dr. Helena Yu, Dr. Natasha B. Leighl, and EGFR Resisters Cofounder Jill Feldman This Rapid Recap provides a responsive, timely, and incisive overview of data presented at the 2022 Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO), and offers expert insights into the shifting management landscape for…

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Coping With Cancer

Fear or Survivor’s Guilt?

By Juanita Segura for Lungcancer.net In the last 7 ½ years I’ve met so many wonderful lung cancer survivors and lost many along the way. Many of them I’ve became close with and bonded regardless of how far we are from each other. We manage to keep in touch and…

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Immunotherapy-based combination strategies for treatment of EGFR-TKI-resistant non-small-cell lung cancer

*March 2022* Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant cancers worldwide. Specific genes are known to drive cancer growth in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and targeted therapies against these genes and their proteins have significantly improved survival. However, resistance to these therapies inevitably occurs and there is…

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Recent News & Research

ASCO 2032: What Will Be the Big Story in Lung Cancer?

Selecting Therapy for Advanced NSCLC With EGFR Mutations

Targeted Therapies Patient Forum 2022

Raising Kids While Battling Lung Cancer

Dana Farber Webcast: Second Annual “Living with EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer: A Virtual Forum for Patients and Caregivers”

Is There a Role for PD-L1 Inhibitors in EGFR-Mutant or ALK-Rearranged NSCLC?

Duma Discusses the Unique Challenges of Women With Lung Cancer

2022 EGFR+ Lung Cancer Rapid Recap: The Evolving State of the Science in EGFR+ NSCLC

Fear or Survivor’s Guilt?

Immunotherapy-based combination strategies for treatment of EGFR-TKI-resistant non-small-cell lung cancer

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