Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade: a window of opportunity to advance cancer immunotherapy

SL Topalian, PM Forde, LA Emens, M Yarchoan… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Among new treatment approaches for patients with cancer, few have accelerated as quickly
as neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Neoadjuvant cancer therapy is …

Pembrolizumab in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin compared with gemcitabine and cisplatin alone for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer …

RK Kelley, M Ueno, C Yoo, RS Finn, J Furuse, Z Ren… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Biliary tract cancers, which arise from the intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile ducts
and the gallbladder, generally have a poor prognosis and are rising in incidence worldwide …

Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in squamous non–small-cell lung cancer: 5-year update of the phase III KEYNOTE-407 study

S Novello, DM Kowalski, A Luft, M Gümüş… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
Clinical trials frequently include multiple end points that mature at different times. The initial
report, typically based on the primary end point, may be published when key planned co …

[HTML][HTML] Phase III, randomized study of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-or ALK-mutated non–small-cell lung cancer …

S Park, TM Kim, JY Han, GW Lee… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE In the treatment of non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a driver mutation,
the role of anti–PD-(L) 1 antibody after tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) remains unclear. This …

The Efficacy and Safety of Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

DC Guven, TK Sahin, S Kilickap - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The benefit of neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy was compared with
chemotherapy for localized NSCLC in several trials. We conducted a systematic review and …

Concomitant Proton Pump Inhibitor Use With Pembrolizumab Monotherapy vs Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Plus Chemotherapy in Patients With Non− Small Cell …

H Kawachi, T Yamada, M Tamiya, Y Negi… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) monotherapy with pembrolizumab and ICI plus
chemotherapy have been approved as first-line treatments for non–small cell lung cancer …

Dostarlimab or pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in previously untreated metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer: the randomized PERLA phase II trial

SM Lim, S Peters, AL Ortega Granados… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
PERLA is a global, double-blind, parallel phase II trial (NCT04581824) comparing efficacy
and safety of anti–PD-1 antibodies dostarlimab and pembrolizumab, plus chemotherapy …

Therapy for stage IV non–small cell lung cancer with driver alterations: ASCO living guideline, version 2023.3

IA Jaiyesimi, NB Leighl, N Ismaila, K Alluri… - Journal of clinical …, 2024 - ascopubs.org
Living guidelines are developed for selected topic areas with rapidly evolving evidence that
drives frequent change in recommended clinical practice. Living guidelines are updated on …

[HTML][HTML] Four-year clinical update and treatment switching-adjusted outcomes with first-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy for metastatic non-small cell …

DP Carbone, TE Ciuleanu, M Schenker… - … for ImmunoTherapy of …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In CheckMate 9LA, nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy prolonged
overall survival (OS) versus chemotherapy regardless of tumor PD-L1 expression or …

Predictive capability of PD-L1 protein expression for patients with advanced NSCLC: any differences based on histology?

N Meshulami, S Tavolacci, D de Miguel-Perez… - Clinical Lung Cancer, 2023 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is responsible for 1.8 million annual deaths. Non–small cell lung cancers
(NSCLC) represent 85% of lung cancer tumors. While surgery is an effective early-stage …