Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Not Immune from Imprecise Selection of Patients

Arguably, no drug class has more radically and rapidly altered the management of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) than inhibitors of the interaction between programmed death 1 (PD-1) and its ligand PD-L1. By impeding this negative regulatory signal for T-cell response, PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors result in longer survival than does chemotherapy among patients with previously treated NSCLC.1-4 In this issue of the Journal, Carbone and colleagues report on a trial that compared the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab with chemotherapy as first-line treatment for advanced NSCLC in a population of patients selected on the basis of PD-L1 expression level.5.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:376

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 376(2017), 25, Seite 2483

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Edward B Garon [VerfasserIn]

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BKL:

44.60

44.00

Themen:

Cancer
Cancer therapies
Chemotherapy
Clinical trials
Human subjects
Immunotherapy
Inhibitor drugs
Lung cancer

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RVK Klassifikation

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1995100897