Lung Cancer
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Lung cancer in 2030: Expand genotyping
Improve the ability to treat patients based on risk level and expand the use of targeted therapies.
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Weighing the complexity of pathological response in lung cancer
Future work should aim to standardize pathology assessment.
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Pembro provides DFS benefit in early NSCLC
But more data are needed to understand the longer-term survival outcomes and the role of PD-L1 as a predictive marker for sensitivity to immune...
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Adding immunotherapy to chemo in lung cancer improves patient outcomes, new data show
Patient-reported outcomes are often released well after efficacy data, making treatment decisions more challenging.
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Obesity increasing the risk for cancer: It’s complicated
For some cancers it was “very clear that obesity increased the risk ... but for some other cancer types, we either don’t have enough data yet or...
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Cancer Data Trends 2022
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Few new cancer drugs replace current standards of care
Newer drugs could benefit patients but could increase the cost of care.
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Adverse skin effects of cancer immunotherapy reviewed
“The desirable, immune-mediated oncologic response is often achieved at the cost of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) that may potentially...
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Untargeted CT scans leads to overdiagnoses in lung cancer
The dangers of overdiagnosis are counterintuitive, but real.
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Ways to lessen toxic effects of chemo in older adults
Three recent high-quality randomized trials evaluated the use of geriatric assessment in older adults with cancer.