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Different Chemo Choices for Concurrent Chemo/Radiation

July 29, 2007 - 7:45 am

  My last post included studies that demonstrated no additional benefit from giving chemo after concurrent chemo/radiation for locally advanced NSCLC, but it’s important to add a qualifier to that conclusion.  The studies that have shown an overall favorable result from two cycles, or about 6-7 weeks, of chemo with radiation have thus far primarily […]

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Questions and Concerns about Consolidation Taxotere

July 27, 2007 - 8:16 am

    Although consolidation taxotere after concurrent chemo and radiation therapy (CT/RT) emerged as the preferred treatment approach for about 2/3 of American oncologists over the last few years, this was predicated on an incomplete story.  We received information from an additional two studies this year, and now it’s a big mess. 
    In the wake of […]

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How Did Consolidation Chemo Become a Leading Approach for Stage III NSCLC?

July 25, 2007 - 5:48 pm

    As I described in my last post, there is a strong consensus that overlapping chemotherapy (CT) and radiation therapy (RT) provides greater efficacy, meaning higher survival rates, than a sequential, non-overlapping approach for stage III, unresectable NSCLC.  Beyond that, it’s a bit of a mess, with a wide range of choices and no clear […]

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Why Do We Give Chemo/Radiation Concurrently in Stage III NSCLC?

July 23, 2007 - 8:02 pm

   When I first started OncTalk, my first priority was to get some basic posts on the site that provided a quick and dirty assessment of the best standards we had for different stages of lung cancer.   But not only did several of these gloss over a lot of material very quickly, that was really […]

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Is there a Group That Does Particularly Well with Erbitux in NSCLC?

July 14, 2007 - 10:47 am

   I wrote in a post several months ago about the ongoing study of the monoclonal entibody against EGFR erbitux (cetuximab) in lung cancer, where it’s role is still up in the air.  Unlike the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) iressa and tarceva, which showed no benefit when given concurrently with standard chemo, erbitux has a different mechanism […]

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Trial of Chemo with or Without Erbitux in Advanced NSCLC Negative

July 12, 2007 - 6:25 pm

   It’s a little sad that you can get more cancer information from the business websites than from the medical ones, but if you checked a story on Forbes.com today you learned that Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) provided a press release that one of their important Erbitux (cetuximab) trials didn’t meet its primary endpoint of improved progression-free survival […]

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Biologic and Molecular Correlates of Clinical Benefit in French Trial of Iressa in BAC

July 11, 2007 - 4:07 pm

   The study I was just discussing, the French trial of Iressa at 250 mg daily for advanced BAC (abstract here), provided interesting clinical information, especially when viewed in the context of previous work on EGFR inhibitors in BAC.  But in 2007 we’re also interested in the next generation of questions, including trying to identify which patients are […]

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France Weighs in on EGFR Inhibitor Therapy for BAC; Mucinous vs. Non-Mucinous BAC

July 9, 2007 - 9:18 pm

   I reviewed a couple of presentations on bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) at ASCO 2007, including one by Cadranal and colleagues in which patients with advanced BAC received single agent Iressa (abstract here).  This study enrolled 88 eligible previously untreated patients with advanced BAC or adenocarcinoma with BAC features, about 55% women/45% men (typical for BAC trials to […]

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Risk of Complications when Avastin Combined with Chest Radiation

July 8, 2007 - 5:08 pm

   After Avastin was found to produce a survival benefit when combined with chemo in advanced NSCLC, it became increasingly appealing to try to see if adding Avastin in earlier stages of lung cancer, both SCLC and NSCLC, where it might increase the cure rate.  I’ve described how it’s being studied in a trial with […]

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Integrating Avastin into Treatment of SCLC

July 7, 2007 - 2:34 pm

   In a talk at ASCO 2007, I was asked to present some commentary on a couple of phase II, single arm trials of patients with ED-SCLC that were reported by two different cancer cooperative groups in the US, each adding the anti-angiogenic agent Avastin (bevacizumab) to standard chemotherapy options in this setting.  One trial, CALGB 30306 […]

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