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What would be your next line of treatment for NSCLC adenocarcinoma that has recurred after chemoradiation with cis/etoposide?

PD-L1 < 50% and no targetable mutations. Would you use carbo/pemetrexed/pembrolizumab or Nivolumab or pembrolizumab?
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Medical Oncology · Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University
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In this setting, it would depend upon the timing from completion of definitive chemoradiation and relapse/progression. In the absence of more definitive data, I take my cue from what most "first line" clinical trials have used for their eligibility criteria - patients are candidates (typically) if their prior chemoradiation (or, for that matter, adjuvant chemotherapy) was completed six months or more prior to documentation of recurrence. For this reason, if < 6 months, I would probably treat as "second line" and use either Nivolumab, Atezolizumab or (if PDL1 between 1 and 49%), Pembrolizumab. If more than six months have elapsed, then I would use, as suggested in the question, Carbo/Pemetrexed/Pembrolizumab.

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