Two Opdivo trials show three-year survival in patients with previously treated advanced NSCLC

Immunotherapy before and after lung cancer surgery reduces death risk, disease recurrence

People with operable non-small cell lung cancers may fare better over the next few years by receiving immunotherapy treatments before and after surgery instead of only before surgery, according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators.

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Vol.50 No.34

Cancer History Project Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Lung cancer couldn’t slow down physician and athlete Lawrence Phillips

Something odd turned up in one of Lawrence Phillips’s routine health screenings in 2008.

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Vol.50 No.33

By Deborah Doroshow and McKenzie Prillaman

Drugs & Targets

FDA grants Imfinzi priority review and Breakthrough Therapy designation for limited-stage SCLC

FDA granted priority review for Imfinzi (durvalumab), AstraZeneca’s supplemental Biologics License Application, based on the results from the positive ADRIATIC phase III trial in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer whose disease has not progressed following platinum-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy.

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Vol.50 No.33

Drugs & Targets

Daiichi Sankyo, Merck collaborate to develop and commercialize MK-6070, an investigational delta-like ligand 3 targeting T-cell engager

Daiichi Sankyo and Merck have expanded their existing global co-development and co-commercialization agreement for three investigational DXd antibody-drug conjugates to include Merck’s MK-6070, an investigational delta-like ligand 3 targeting T-cell engager.

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Vol.50 No.32

In Brief

Pasi Jänne receives 2024 Bonnie J. Addario Lectureship Award

Pasi A. Jänne received the GO2 for Lung Cancer’s 2024 Bonnie J. Addario Lectureship Award.

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Vol.50 No.31

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Vaping and smoking together increases lung cancer risk fourfold

People who both vape and smoke are four times more likely to develop lung cancer than people who just smoke, according to a new study published by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and College of Public Health.

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Vol.50 No.31

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