Lung Cancer Update

Specialist clinical investigators share their perspectives on the evolving therapeutic landscape for patients with lung cancer.

Dr Stephen V Liu from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, reviews recently presented data with and newly approved therapies for localized and advanced lung cancers.

Dr Jacob Sands from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, discusses recent presentations on approved and investigational therapies in small cell lung cancer from the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Dr Edward Garon from UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dr Luis Paz-Ares from the Spanish National Oncology Research Center in Madrid share their perspectives on recent datasets from the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer on the management of non-small cell lung cancer without actionable genomic alterations.

Dr Ibiayi Dagogo-Jack from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Dr Corey J Langer from the Abramson Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, discuss the implications of recent datasets for the current and future management of non-small cell lung cancer with actionable targets beyond EGFR.

Dr Joshua K Sabari from the NYU Langone Health Perlmutter Cancer Center and Dr Helena Yu from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York, summarize the treatment landscape for non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations.

Dr Pamela Kunz from the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and Dr Simron Singh from the Odette Cancer Centre and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, discuss optimizing the diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine tumors.

Dr Pasi Jänne from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, Prof Tom John from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Zofia Piotrowska from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and Dr Alexander Spira from the Virginia Cancer Specialists Research Program in Fairfax, discuss recent updates on available and emerging treatment strategies for non-small cell lung cancer with an EGFR mutation.

Prof Solange Peters from the Lausanne University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Professor Ben Solomon from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia, discuss treatment approaches for ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer in the localized disease setting.

Dr Melissa Johnson from Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, Dr Ticiana Leal from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and Dr Manish Patel from Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute in Sarasota, Florida, summarize recently presented advancements, including novel strategies, in the treatment of lung cancer.