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For patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who remain progression-free on immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-based therapy at 2 years, continuing treatment does not appear to confer any survival advantage as opposed to stopping, according to a retrospective study presented at ASCO 2023.

In individuals with resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the addition of perioperative durvalumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy improved pathologic complete response (pCR) and event-free survival (EFS), findings from the AEGEAN study have shown.

Patients who have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) may benefit from increased flavonoid intake, which has been shown to reduce CRC-specific mortality in a recent study.

Patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harbouring EGFR mutation appear to experience similar survival outcomes with either frontline osimertinib therapy or sequential treatment approach of gefitinib followed by osimertinib, although upfront osimertinib leads to a significant reduction in the risk of brain progression, as shown in the results of the APPLE trial presented at ELCC 2023.

Combination treatment with eftilagimod alpha plus pembrolizumab has shown promising signal of activity against metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients resistant to PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, as shown in the updated results of the phase II TACTI-002 study.

Treatment with pazopanib combined with chemotherapy leads to better overall response rate (ORR) in patients with recurrent or persistent ovarian cancer but falls short of improving survival, reveals a study. In addition, the combination therapy contributes to an increase in several adverse events (AEs).

First-line treatment with cemiplimab, either as monotherapy or in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy, provides clinical benefits to patients with unresectable locally advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are not candidates for definitive concurrent chemoradiation, as shown by long-term follow-up data from EMPOWER-Lung studies.

Use of psychedelic drugs appears to have some benefits in reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms among patients with cancer or other life-threatening diseases, reports a study.

Treatment with liposomal irinotecan in adults with relapsed small cell lung cancer (SCLC) achieves similar overall survival (OS) when compared with topotecan, but the former is associated with a higher overall response rate (ORR), according to the results of RESILIENT, randomized, open-label phase III trial.