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News, opinions and meeting coverage in pulmonology.

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<乌鸦传媒>Another COVID Toll: Over 134,000 Undiagnosed Cancers During Height of Pandemic

Diagnosis rates remained low throughout 2020, with mortality increase projected

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<乌鸦传媒>Arginine Starvation Boosts OS in Mesothelioma

With frontline immunotherapy now standard, strategy could potentially find home in second-line

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<乌鸦传媒>Perioperative Tislelizumab Demonstrates Survival Benefit in NSCLC

But how well will the results from China translate to Western populations?

FDA APPROVED tepotinib (Tepmetko) over a computer rendering of a transparent body with lung cancer highlighted.

<乌鸦传媒>Tepotinib Gains Full Approval for Metastatic NSCLC

Agency converts accelerated approval for subset with MET exon 14 mutations

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<乌鸦传媒>Smokers Who Quit and Stick With It See Greatest Reduction in Cancer Risk

Cessation at any age proved helpful for lowering cancer risk

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<乌鸦传媒>Patients and Doctors Push Back Against the Harsh Side Effects of Cancer Drugs

"If the patients are not taking the drug, then it's not going to work"

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<乌鸦传媒>Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Tied to a Range of Cancers, CDC Study Says

Health risks now more firmly established, but study falls short of being definitive

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<乌鸦传媒>Pushback on Rule for Surgical Lymph Node Sampling During Lung Resection

Surgeons debate the right standard for lymph node dissection in lung cancer

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<乌鸦传媒>How Can Cancer Risk Be Cut in Communities Exposed to Toxins?

Group outlines plan to bring the latest testing and treatment to medically underserved minorities

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<乌鸦传媒>EGFR Inhibitors for Lung Cancer Tied to Increased Keratitis Risk

Findings don't tell us to stop these drugs, researcher says, but should guide clinical decisions

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<乌鸦传媒>Hypofractionated Chemoradiation With Adaptive SABR Appeared Effective in NSCLC

Dose of 70 Gy in 15 fractions showed favorable balance between safety and efficacy in small trial

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<乌鸦传媒>Cryobiopsy and Forceps Biopsy Go Head-to-Head for Diagnosing Lung Lesions

When added to needle aspiration, one method yielded better samples for molecular testing in NSCLC

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<乌鸦传媒>Futile Immunotherapy for Cancer Grows More Common

Occurs most often at non-academic and low-volume centers

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<乌鸦传媒>Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals

"For them to take weeks -- up to months -- to provide an authorization is ridiculous"

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<乌鸦传媒>Homelessness Tied to Worse Cancer Outcomes Among Veterans

However, all-cause mortality rates in lung, colon cancer lower versus other healthcare settings

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<乌鸦传媒>Grappling With Our Deadliest Cancer

Here are essential steps to improve lung cancer screening

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<乌鸦传媒>With an Old X-Ray, AI Can Detect High Risk of Lung Cancer in Never Smokers

Tool could identify nonsmokers most likely to benefit from low-dose CT screening

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<乌鸦传媒>Osimertinib Shows Activity in NSCLC With Uncommon EGFR Mutations

Researchers suggest the drug is a promising option for this rare subgroup

FDA APPROVED repotrectinib (Augtyro) over a computer rendering of a transparent body with lung cancer highlighted.

<乌鸦传媒>FDA OKs New Option for Advanced ROS1-Positive Lung Cancer

Drug achieved high response rates in TKI-naive and TKI-pretreated patients

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<乌鸦传媒>Lung Cancer Survival High at 20 Years With Screen-Detected Tumors

After two decades, lung cancer-specific survival remained at 81% in I-ELCAP program

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<乌鸦传媒>Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome Underdiagnosed Alongside SCLC in the U.S.

Findings suggest patients with SCLC are not screened for LEMS, despite their association

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<乌鸦传媒>ACS: Millions More Should Get Lung Cancer Screening

Notably, new recommendations say it doesn't matter when a person quit smoking

<乌鸦传媒>The Exciting Potential of Antibody-Drug Conjugates in Lung Cancer

Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, leads a discussion on ADCs targeting TROP2, HER2, and HER3

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<乌鸦传媒>New Options Challenge Standard Treatments in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC

Amivantamab-based regimens improved oncologic outcomes, but with more side effects

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<乌鸦传媒>ALK Inhibitor Outperforms Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Resected Lung Cancer

Adjuvant alectinib reduces disease-free survival hazard by 76%

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<乌鸦传媒>Antibody-Drug Conjugate Improves PFS in Pretreated Breast, Lung Cancers

Still some unanswered questions about benefit over other drug regimens, expert says

<乌鸦传媒>Targeting KRAS in NSCLC: Recent Progress and New Approaches

Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, leads a discussion on current and emerging treatments available

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<乌鸦传媒>New First-Line Standard for Lung Cancers With EGFR Exon 20 Insertions

Adding amivantamab to chemotherapy improved PFS, induced more rapid and durable responses

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<乌鸦传媒>RET Inhibitor Posts Frontline Wins in Medullary Thyroid Cancer, NSCLC

Two randomized studies demonstrate significantly improved PFS against standard regimens

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<乌鸦传媒>Bi-Specific T-Cell Engager Active in Small-Cell Lung Cancer in Third Line and Beyond

Tarlatamab achieves 40% overall response rate at the dose selected for continued evaluation

FDA APPROVED pembrolizumab (Keytruda) + platinum-containing chemotherapy over a computer rendering of lung cancer.

<乌鸦传媒>Pembrolizumab Wins FDA Approval in Operable Lung Cancer

Checkpoint inhibitor demonstrated significant survival improvement in perioperative setting

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<乌鸦传媒>New Lung Cancer Cases Are Higher in Younger Women vs Men

And the higher incidence rates now extend to women ages 50 to 54 as well

FDA APPROVED encorafenib (Braftovi) over a computer rendering of lung cancer.

<乌鸦传媒>Combination Therapy Wins FDA Approval for BRAF-Mutated NSCLC

Encorafenib plus binimetinib led to 75% ORR in untreated patients, 59% in treated patients

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<乌鸦传媒>Primary Care Intervention Improved Follow-Up of Abnormal Cancer Screening Results

Follow-up testing within 120 days was improved with EHR reminders, patient outreach, navigation

FDA ADCOMM sotorasib (Lumakras) over a chest x-ray image of a patient with lung cancer.

<乌鸦传媒>Sotorasib's Confirmatory Data in NSCLC Unreliable, Says FDA Panel

But聽agency doesn't plan to immediately push for KRAS inhibitor's withdrawal

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<乌鸦传媒>Can ctDNA Guide Radiation Use in Oligometastatic NSCLC?

Detectable circulating tumor DNA before radiotherapy linked with worse survival

FDA ADCOMM sotorasib (Lumakras) over a chest x-ray image of a patient with lung cancer.

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Staff Highly Skeptical of Confirmatory Data on KRAS Inhibitor in NSCLC

Reviewers see potentially tiny PFS benefit with sotorasib, raise concerns over "systemic bias"

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<乌鸦传媒>The White House Cancer Moonshot Is a Dud

We're failing to take simple steps to reduce one of the biggest causes of cancer

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<乌鸦传媒>Another Win for Biomarker-Driven Thromboprophylaxis for Patients With Cancer

Threefold risk reduction with enoxaparin in high-risk gastrointestinal, lung cancers

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<乌鸦传媒>Individualized SABR for Lung Tumors Yields Low Recurrence Rates

Strategy also results in low rates of severe toxic effects

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