Dr. Jack West, Dr. Julie Brahmer, and Dr. Ben Creelan discuss the excitement the medical community is feeling about immunotherapy for the treatment of lung cancer. February 2014

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Drs. Mary Pinder, Nate Pennell, and Jack West discuss whether the finding of improving progression-free survival with maintenance sorafenib for SCLC should change the standard of care for treatment of extensive stage disease.

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Drs. Jack West, Mary Pinder, and Nate Pennell review various ways in which emerging immunotherapies could be effectively incorporated into our treatment strategies for lung cancer, potentially adding to or replacing current options.

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Drs. Jack West, Mary Pinder, and Nate Pennell discuss options for managing acquired resistance to EGFR TKIs and ALK inhibitors in patients with advanced NSCLC and a driver mutation.

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Drs. Nate Pennell, Mary Pinder, and Jack West discuss the START trial of L-BLP-25 (tecemotide) immunotherapy in locally advanced NSCLC.

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Drs. Mary Pinder, Nate Pennell, and Jack West discuss developments with selumetinib and other MEK inhibitors as a potential target for the 20-25% of NSCLC patients with a KRAS mutation.

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Drs. Nate Pennell, Mary Pinder, and Jack West discuss an encouraging study of dabrafenib, a BRAF inhibitor, for the limited number of NSCLC patients with a BRAF V600E mutation.

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Dr. Mary Pinder of Moffitt Cancer Center reviews the CUSTOM trial, in which the study of molecular markers was expanded to patients with small cell lung cancer and thymic carcinomas.

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Dr. Nate Pennell from Cleveland Clinic reviews the LUME Lung-1 trial presented by Reck at ASCO 2013, of Taxotere with or without nintedanib (BIBF-1120), an anti-angiogenic multikinase inhibitor, in advanced NSCLC.

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Dr. Mary Pinder reviews promising studies from ASCO 2013 on second gen. ALK inhibitors LDK-378, CH5424802, and AP26113 in patients with ALK-positive advanced NSCLC, including impressive activity in crizotinib-refractory patients and those with brain mets.

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