Lung Cancer
Palliative Care
Quality of Supportive Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer in the VHA
Article
Rare Cancer Gets Timely Right Treatment
A new case report shows the gravity of making assumptions when diagnosing patients with multiple cancerous lesions.
Conference Coverage
Pembrolizumab ‘new standard of care’ in advanced PD-L1-rich NSCLC
Pembrolizumab was superior to chemotherapy in stage IV NSCLC with PD-L1 expression of 50% or more.
Conference Coverage
Pembrolizumab boosts response but not survival in small study of advanced NSCLC
COPENHAGEN – Adding the PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to a standard platinum-doublet chemotherapy regimen nearly doubled...
Conference Coverage
Glimmer of promise for nivolumab in neoadjuvant NSCLC therapy
COPENHAGEN – Checkpoint inhibitors have shown good efficacy for treatment of advanced NSCLC, but use in the neoadjuvant setting is still...
Best Practices
Is It All in the Eye of the Beholder? Comparing Pulmonologists’ and Radiologists’ Performance
Experienced pulmonologists and radiologists were equally accurate in diagnosing malignant lung nodules and lung masses seen on low-dose computed...
Original Research
Metastatic Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung: An Unusual Cause of Acute Fulminant Hepatic Failure
For patients with acute fulminant liver failure, imaging and histopathologic studies are indicated to reveal the underlying etiology, and...
Clinical Review
An Unusual Cause of Shortness of Breath: Primary Tracheal Basal Cell Adenocarcinoma
A rare case of basal cell adenocarcinoma of the salivary gland tissue in the trachea can be difficult to differentiate from basal cell...
Article
Long-Term Survival of a Patient With Late-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Clinical Review
Long-Term Survival of a Patient With Late-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
After not responding to chemotherapy and monoclonal antibody therapy, a patient with late-stage non-small cell lung cancer benefited from...