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The question of whether to give upfront immunochemotherapy in resectable non–small cell lung cancer, wait until after surgery, or give both remains a hot topic of debate.

Data from three trials with the amivantamab in advanced EGFR-mutant NSCLC have yielded "exciting" results with experts hailing the drug as standard of care in various settings.

Media Release Median Overall Survival reaches 35.5 months in first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer patients expressing PD-L1 (TPS >1%), 23.4 months in patients with low PD-L1 expression (TPS 1-49%), and has not been reached in patients with high PD-L1 expression (TPS >50%), exceeding expectationsPromising Overall Survival, Overall Response Rate, Progression Free Survival, and Duration of Response visible across all PD-L1 subgroups (TPS <1%, ≥1%, 1-49...

Byoung Chul Cho, MD, PhD, discusses key findings from the phase 3 MARIPOSA study of first-line amivantamab plus lazertinib vs osimertinib in EGFR-mutant locally advanced or metastatic non– small cell lung cancer.

The European Commission has approved fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer whose tumors harbor an activating HER2 mutation and who require systemic therapy following platinum-based chemotherapy with or without immunotherapy.

MARIPOSA demonstrated the combination reduced risk of progression or death by 30% compared with osimertinib. MARIPOSA-2 found amivantamab plus chemotherapy and amivantamab plus chemotherapy and lazertinib also improved progression-free survival (PFS) over chemotherapy after progression on osimertinib.

Datopotamab deruxtecan not only demonstrated a statistically significant improvement over chemotherapy for breast cancer and docetaxel for non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the intervention therapy had less toxicity.

Some cancers with a poor prognosis have had no new treatments in decades. Advances in the genetic characterization of these tumors now offer a range of possibilities for the development of new therapies that could completely change the quality of life and survival of these patients.

The combination of amivantamab and lazertinib reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 30% compared with osimertinib alone as frontline therapy for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring classical EGFR sensitizing mutations.

Retevmo improved progression-free survival, compared with chemotherapy with or without Keytruda in patients with RET-fusion positive non-small cell lung cancer.