Top Lung Cancer News of 2017

Investigators showcased feasibility of combining pathology findings with deep learning artificial intelligence to speed up biomarker detection and discovery for patients with lung cancer.

Georgios Evangelou, MD, MSc, speaks to the potential utility of neoadjuvant capecitabine/temozolomide in well-differentiated atypical carcinoids.

Read about a woman with well-differentiated atypical carcinoid who experienced a 21% regression in primary tumor size after 12 months on neoadjuvant capecitabine and temozolomide.

Rian M. Hasson Charles, MD, MPH, FACS, discusses advances in equitable lung cancer screening and her experiences as a woman in thoracic oncology.

Phase 3 data also show an improvement in deterioration-free survival with TTFields and best supportive care in those with NSCLC and brain metastases.

Long-term data from the CheckMate 9LA trial support nivolumab/ipilimumab plus chemotherapy as frontline treatment for metastatic NSCLC.