Lung Cancer
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CheckMate 012: Nivolumab plus chemo less than stellar
Key clinical point: Adding nivolumab to chemotherapy did not enhance overall responses in advanced NSCLC, although there was a suggestion of...
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Do small lung adenocarcinomas need subclassifying?
Key clinical point: Comparable 5-year survival rates call into question the need to classify small lung carcinomas as adenocarcinoma in situ vs....
Case-Based Review
Stage III Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer
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VIDEO: Nonclinical factors affect lung resection survival
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Hippocampus-sparing brain radiotherapy preserves memory, QOL
Key clinical point: Whole-brain radiotherapy that spares the hippocampal neural stem cell compartment preserves memory and QOL in cancer patients...
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Aggressive radiotherapy dramatically improves limited metastatic NSCLC
Key clinical point: Stereotactic body radiation therapy plus erlotinib dramatically improves survival in limited but progressive metastatic NSCLC...
Original Report
Quality of supportive care for patients with advanced lung cancer in the Veterans Health Administration
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Adjuvant vaccine fails in NSCLC
Key clinical point: Adjuvant lung cancer vaccination failed to improve disease-free survival in early-stage non–small cell lung cancer. Major...
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VIDEO: Lung-MAP charts new ground in trial design
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Thoracic radiotherapy improves outcomes in patients with extensive small cell lung cancer
Key clinical point: Thoracic radiotherapy should be offered in addition to prophylactic cranial irradiation to patients with extensive small cell...
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FDG-PET no help in differentiating cancer from benign lung nodules in infection-endemic regions
Key clinical point: Combined FDG-PET did not reliably distinguish benign lung disease from lung cancer in areas of endemic lung infection. Major...