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01-12-2020 | Lung Cancer | Letter to the Editor

IMpower, CASPIAN, and more: exploring the optimal first-line immunotherapy for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer

Authors: Chengliang Huang, Gregory N. Gan, Jun Zhang

Published in: Journal of Hematology & Oncology | Issue 1/2020

Abstract

The life expectancy of extensive-stage small cell lung (ES-SCLC) cancer patients has not improved in the last 2–3 decades until two recent trials (CASPIAN and IMpower133) showing the addition of anti-programmed death ligand (PD-L1) therapy to chemotherapy has survival benefit over chemotherapy alone. However, such benefit is relatively small and was not even observed in some other trials using immunotherapy, raising the question of optimal chemoimmunotherapy combination in the 1st-line setting for ES-SCLC. Here, we discussed several thought-provoking questions with the focus on IMpower133 and CASPIAN trials.

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Title: IMpower, CASPIAN, and more: exploring the optimal first-line immunotherapy for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer
Authors: Chengliang Huang
Gregory N. Gan
Jun Zhang
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keywords: Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer
SCLC
Lung Cancer
SCLC
Cytostatic Therapy
Published in: Journal of Hematology & Oncology / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1756-8722
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13045-020-00898-y

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