Fred R. Hirsch receives the Heine H. Hansen Award 2022
In his Award Keynote Lecture at the European Lung Cancer Congress 2022, Prof. Fred R. Hirsch describes how ‘the tissue is still the issue’
How long should we give immunotherapy for?
The length of immunotherapy course for metastatic lung cancer was arbitrarily set at 2 years in clinical trials, but definitive studies investigating the optimum duration against the risk-benefit profile are lacking
How can we continue to improve outcomes for our patients with lung cancer?
Advances made in the treatment of advanced lung cancer are now being introduced at earlier stages of disease
Poziotinib does not meet the expectations to target insertion mutations in HER2 exon 20 in NSCLC
The tyrosine kinase inhibitor shows signs of efficacy in treatment-naïve NSCLC with HER2 exon 20 insertions, but its safety profile remains a limiting factor
Combining WEE1 inhibition with PD-L1 blockade shows promise in SCLC models
Blocking the tyrosine kinase cell-cycle progression regulator WEE1 may help to reinstate tumour immunogenicity and potentiate the effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors
Sitravatinib shows signals of enhancing checkpoint inhibitor efficacy in NSCLC progressing on immunotherapy
Early-phase trials suggest that sitravatinib may reboot the tumour response to PD-1 inhibitors, but confirmation of efficacy is required and strategies are needed to adjust tolerability
Exploring targeted degradation of KRAS G12C with PROTACs
Developing therapies for cancers harbouring KRAS mutations has proven difficult but PROTACs, acting via targeted protein degradation, may help combat previously undruggable proteins
Can ctDNA changes after neoadjuvant therapy inform management of early NSCLC?
A study associates reductions in ctDNA with major pathologic response following neoadjuvant atezolizumab in resectable stage IB–IIIB NSCLC, but clinical application is still some way off
Can we further define patient groups who benefit from immunotherapy in advanced NSCLC?
Sub-group analyses of CheckMate 227 part 1 provide reassurance but no definite guidance regarding standard treatment for different patient sub-groups
Refining patient selection for atezolizumab in resected NSCLC
Results from an exploratory analysis of the IMpower010 trial confirm that there is a correlation between tumour-cell PD-L1 expression and disease-free survival