Thoracic Malignancies

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Questions discussed in this category


Is there anything to differentiate the two agents? CNS penetration reportedly with adagrasib, FDA accelerated approval has been given with sotorasib.&...

If CCRT is pursued, would you move forward with durvalumab consolidation? Assume the patient with ECOG PS 0 and no co-morbidities. How might this chan...

Ex. TP53, BRCA, T790M, or another? As of now, T790M mutation is one of the few de novo mutations found in treatment naïve patients that have been...

In light of CheckMate 816 and IMpower010 and FDA approval for neoadjuvant chemo-nivolumab and adjuvant chemo-atezolizumab, how do you decide which sys...

NGS without any actionable mutations and PD-L1 TPS 15%. Would you offer chemotherapy, radiation, or immunotherapy and, if so, in what order?

Do you routinely offer post-operative adjuvant radiation in addition to chemotherapy? Are the results of the recently published negative phase II...

Patient has been on pembrolizumab and had two symptomatic soft tissue mass treated with radiation. 

Would you consider afatinib? Afatinib has shown some activity in NRG1 fusion + patients but amplifications is unclear. 

I am considering every 6 week pembrolizumab dosing in patients >70 years old in whom I want to reduce clinic visits for, especially in the context ...

Are there any data to support a specific TKI therapy for non-T790M exon 20 mutations/insertions?

The patient remains without evidence of systemic disease outside of the CNS on serial imaging. Would you continue treating with SRS as lesions appear,...

Would you treated with local therapies (RFA or SRS) and continue pembrolizumab or would you move to second line treatment?

What are the risks of infection with COVID-19 if using immunotherapy?  

Should staging and treatment decisions be made based on imaging alone?

Most trials establishing CRT as standard of care for IIIB NSCLC excluded patients with separate ipsilateral lung nodules given that they were categori...

Especially if you don't have trials available at the moment. Would you try off-label erdafitinib (given recent data on bladder cancer) or 2nd line ge...

In the absence of a frontline clinical trial, would you treat with carboplatin+pemetrexed+pembrolizumab or consider IMPOWER 150 or other?

In a patient with lung cancer with both NSCLC and SCLC components, would you offer carbo/pem/pembro or carbo/etoposide/atezolizumab? Or any other alte...

The NCCN guidelines regard  MET exon 14 skip mutation   as an emerging biomarker but no formal recommendation to start crizotinib. If high P...

Given the potential high risk of developing pneumonitis with TKI post checkpoint inhibitor, do you avoid TKIs and try a different regimen (ex carbo/pa...

In clinical practice, consolidation chemotherapy is sometimes used, though this was not implemented in the PACIFIC trial.Antonia et al., PMID 28885881...

Retrospective data suggest clinically significant disease flare after tyrosine kinase inhibitor discontinuation in patients with EGFR-mutant lung canc...

No other site of metastatic disease. It is unclear if this situation should be managed as two separate primaries or metastatic disease.

Carbo/pemetrexed/pembrolizumab, carbo/pemtrexed without immunotherapy or second line immunotherapy (Nivo, Pem or atezolizumab)?

There is no evidence of disease outside the lung on PET, and the patient is completely asymptomatic with negative EGFR, ALK, ROS1, and BRAF and a PD-L...

PD-L1 < 50% and no targetable mutations. Would you use carbo/pemetrexed/pembrolizumab or Nivolumab or pembrolizumab?

Lung primary is inaccessible for biopsy and metastatic sites are only 2 small bone lesions. In a non-smoker, a driver mutation is suspected but would ...

Certainly ovarian cancer will respond to carboplatin and paclitaxel and it sounds like a reasonable chemotherapy to give to a stage IV NSCLC, however ...

When would you favor delivering local therapy (e.g. SBRT) prior to systemic therapy?

These patients have been largely excluded from these trials.  What if the infection is well controlled?

Would you offer adjuvant TKI following ADAURA data?  Or proceed with durvalumab based on PACIFIC data?


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