Would you offer adjuvant pembrolizumab to a stage II-III adenocarcinoma of the lung who had a complete pathologic response to 4 cycles of cisplatin/pemetrexed/pembro (KN-671)?
And would your answer be different if you had used pre-op nivolumab (CM-816)?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
The question posed is a central question of investigation and debate today.In my view, the patients most likely to derive benefit from adjuvant immunotherapy after receiving neo-adjuvant chemo-immunotherapy are those with the best responses to neo-adjuvant therapy. The patients I would least likely ...
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Medical Oncologist at Saint Louise Regional Hospital What does Dr. @Wakelee do?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
We really can't draw any firm conclusions from the data available. Cross-trial comparisons are subjective to biases and inconsistencies between the populations included in the studies. That being said, the efficacy data suggests very similar event-free survival in CM-816 and KN-671, again, despite t...
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
For perioperative systemic therapy of NSCLC, current NCCN guidelines recommend neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy if patients are eligible for immune checkpoint inhibitors; the two listed options include either neoadjuvant nivolumab and platinum doublet chemotherapy every 3 weeks for 3 cycles followed b...
What does Dr. @Wakelee do?