Thoracic Malignancies

Journal Club ft. NEJM publications   

Questions discussed in this category



Does this change for PDL1 1-49% vs >50%? Will you be more likely to employ other checkpoint inhibitors before use of HER2 targeting therapy? Or sta...

How are you thinking about sequencing therapies for these patients (IO vs chemo vs T-Dxd)? Are the data from DESTINY-Lung01 strong enough to warrant e...

Can patients be re-challenged after developing ILD? Is the toxicity seen with T-Dxd a potential barrier to use?  Do you feel the dosing used in...

Conversely: In a patient with N2 EGFR+ NSCLC receiving radiation, would you still consider use of osimertinib?

What was the magnitude of benefit for patients with EGFRm NSCLC by stage?  Are you still considering adjuvant osimertinib for patients with earl...

If patients do recur, do you perform these tests on the initial surgical specimen or on tissue from a fresh biopsy (or both?)

Is data available regarding the percentages of patients in each arm who underwent staging PET or the breakdown of CNS imaging modalities?

Are the rates of adjuvant chemotherapy used in ADAURA consistent with real-world practice?


Papers discussed in this category


N Engl J Med, 2021 Sep 18

The New England journal of medicine, 2018-05-31

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2015-12-01

N Engl J Med, 2020 Sep 19

J Clin Oncol, 2020 Dec 04

Lancet, 1998 Jul 25

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2008-11-01

Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology, 2019-08-01

J Thorac Oncol, 2020 Jan 13

J Immunother Cancer, 2019 Jan 21

ESMO Open, 2021 Aug 31

The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Oct 20

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 1999-02

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2006 Dec 01

The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2022 Oct 14