Lung Cancer News

Martin J. Edelman, MD, has been appointed the first chair of the department of medical oncology at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

On Aug. 1, lung and respiratory organizations come together to honor World Lung Cancer Day and raise awareness for one of the most common cancers.

Patients exposed to wildfires while recovering from lung cancer surgery had worse survival outcomes than their unexposed counterparts, study results showed.

Circulating tumor DNA genotyping before tissue diagnosis of suspected advanced non-small cell lung cancer resulted in significantly shorter median time to treatment compared with standard tissue testing, study results showed.

The addition of amivantamab-vmjw to chemotherapy extended PFS among a subset of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, according to the agent’s manufacturer.

Age, sex, BMI, smoking history, nodule size and nodule location — notable factors linked to lung cancer — were also related to this diagnosis in adults with incidentally detected lung nodules, according to study results published in CHEST.

Chemoimmunotherapy extended PFS compared with chemotherapy for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer and ECOG performance status of 2 or 3, according to retrospective study results.

Datopotamab deruxtecan improved PFS compared with standard chemotherapy for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to topline data released by the agent’s manufacturer.

More than one-third of adults with previously untreated stage III non-small cell lung cancer exhibited a pathologic complete response after receiving perioperative nivolumab plus chemotherapy, results of a randomized phase 2 trial showed.

Compared with white veterans, Black veterans had a reduced likelihood of carrying out a lung cancer screening referral, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.