Drs. Ben Solomon, Leora Horn, & Jack West review trial result and implications of ECOG 1505 trial that showed no benefit to addition of Avastin (bevacizumab) to adjuvant chemotherapy for early stage NSCLC.

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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There's a problem in our discussions of standard treatment for patients with higher risk resected early stage NSCLC, and that is that there is a pretty clearly defined standard of care of giving typically around 4 cycles of cisplatin-based chemotherapy to reduce the risk of recurrence, but in truth, the majority of people in the real world don't get it. Still, I wouldn't want to imply that the problem is definitely that doctors aren't giving the right treatment to people who should definitely be getting it.

I'm proud to say that many years ago I sent Dr. Heather Wakelee from Stanford a set of my slides on post-operative therapy for early stage NSCLC -- we' ve been friends since we were both getting started in our careers.

GRACE is very happy to have the opportunity to present this podcast by Dr. Heather Wakelee, medical oncologist at renowned lung cancer expert at Stanford University Cancer Center. The focus of this particular program, supported by an educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline, is on the most important research questions and clinical trials in the field of post-operative therapy for resected NSCLC.