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Immune therapy, or immunotherapy, is one of the most exciting areas of lung cancer research. Dr. Jonathan Goldman of UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center explains how immune therapy works and how it might impact the future of lung cancer treatment.

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What should lung cancer patients know about their disease? Dr. Jonathan Riess argues that patients should understand what type of lung cancer they have and which, if any, mutations their lung tumors may have. He explains why in this video.

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If you were diagnosed with early stage lung cancer, should you receive molecular testing on your tumor in order to get targeted therapy? Dr. Joel Neal of Stanford University Medical Center discusses the reasons for and against it. February 2014.

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Tarceva (erlotinib) has greatly helped EGFR positive lung cancer patients, but eventually it stops working. Dr. Jonathan Goldman of UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center talks about the next generation EGFR inhibitors that may soon become available. February 2014.

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Dr. Joel Neal of Stanford University Medical Center discusses the SELECT clinical trial which studied early stage non-small cell lung cancer patients and whether or not Tarceva (erlotinib) would prevent disease recurrence. February 2014.

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Dr. Heather Wakelee of Stanford University Medical Center talks about how studies looking into Avastin (bevacizumab) for early stage lung cancer patients are progressing. February 2014.

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Dr. Geoffrey Oxnard of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute discusses whether or not patients on targeted therapies, such as EGFR inhibitors, should stay on those therapies after their cancers begin to grow again. February 2014.

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Dr. Charles Rudin of Memorial Sloan Kettering on the possibility of using vaccines to fight lung cancer. February 2014.

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Dr. Heather Wakelee of Stanford University Medical Center talks about a drug still in development for EGFR lung cancer patients, CO-1686. February 2014.

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This is a slide presentation I did last week at a local conference, describing the steady, incremental improvements in survival with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that have occurred over the past 10-15 years.