Chemoradioimmunotherapy of inoperable stage III non-small cell lung cancer : immunological rationale and current clinical trials establishing a novel multimodal strategy

Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have dramatically changed the landscape of lung cancer treatment. Preclinical studies investigating combination of ICI with radiation show a synergistic improvement of tumor control probability and have resulted in the development of novel therapeutic strategies. For advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), targeting immune checkpoint pathways has proven to be less toxic with more durable treatment response than conventional chemotherapy. In inoperable Stage III NSCLC, consolidation immune checkpoint inhibition with the PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab after completion of concurrent platinum-based chemoradiotherapy resulted in remarkable improvement of progression-free and overall survival. This new tri-modal therapy has become a new treatment standard. Development of predictive biomarkers and improvement of patient selection and monitoring is the next step in order to identify patients most likely to derive maximal benefit from this new multimodal approach. In this review, we discuss the immunological rationale and current trials investigating chemoradioimmunotherapy for inoperable stage III NSCLC.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Radiation oncology (London, England) - 15(2020), 1 vom: 09. Juli, Seite 167

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Käsmann, Lukas [VerfasserIn]
Eze, Chukwuka [VerfasserIn]
Taugner, Julian [VerfasserIn]
Roengvoraphoj, Olarn [VerfasserIn]
Dantes, Maurice [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt-Hegemann, Nina-Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Schiopu, Sanziana [VerfasserIn]
Belka, Claus [VerfasserIn]
Manapov, Farkhad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chemoradioimmunotherapy
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Multimodal treatment
Non-small cell lung cancer
Review

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Date Completed 01.04.2021

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13014-020-01595-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312232438