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Second-line atezolizumab plus cabozantinib did not generate a clinical benefit over standard-of-care docetaxel in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer previously treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and chemotherapy.

The combination of tusamitamab ravtansine and pembrolizumab with or without chemotherapy generated responses and was well tolerated when used as first-line treatment for patients with CEACAM5-positive nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer.

At the 2023 European Lung Cancer Congress, results from the recent findings of the CONTACT-01 trial showed no benefit for patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer on the combination of atezolizumab and cabozantinib compared with the standard of care.

Up-front treatment with osimertinib reduced the risk of brain progression-free survival but provided a comparable overall survival benefit compared with sequential treatment with gefitinib followed by osimertinib in patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR mutations.

Amivantamab continued to be tolerable and efficacious in patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations whose disease progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy.

A review based on an expert panel discussion highlights a need for the inclusion of older patients in studies of immune checkpoint inhibitors for the first-line treatment of advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy produced a long-term event-free survival benefit vs chemotherapy alone in patients with resectable non–small cell lung cancer, independent of whether patients underwent minimally invasive surgery or thoracotomy or complete or partial resection of the lung.

Registry data show stereotactic body radiation therapy and surgery provide almost equal survival rates in early stage lung cancer and could be a good therapeutic option in some patients.

A recent study suggests that sleeve lobectomy is safe to perform in patients with non–small cell lung cancer who received neoadjuvant therapy.

Patients with high levels of depression had strikingly high levels of inflammation biomarkers, and these in turn were associated with worse overall survival.