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Congress Report ESMO 2019
Preceptorship Shanghai – Modern Management of Advanced Lung Cancer:
Immunotherapy & Targeted Agents
Springer and the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital held the Lung Cancer International Preceptorship on the 28th-29th June 2018, in Shanghai, China. The overall topic was the modern management of advanced lung cancer: Immunotherapy & Targeted Agents
Expert interviews at ESMO 2019
Filippo de Braud explains what can be achieved with TRK inhibition in TRK-fusion-positive NSCLC, indirectly compares the performance of entrectinib to crizotinib in ROS1-positive disease and shares his opinion on the intracranial activity of entrectinib.
Michael Duruisseaux gives an overview on the role of NRG1 gene fusion in the tumorigenesis of lung cancer, the clinical experience with targeted treatment and the importance of molecular testing with respect to NRG1 fusions.
Stephen Liu on the latest insights in the field of ALK-targeted treatment in lung cancer, a recent update on the clinical evaluation of NRG1-directed therapies, as well as novel molecular targets for lung cancer treatment in the foreseeable future.
Ioannis Metaxas talks about the rationale for the evaluation of lurbinectedin in malignant pleural mesothelioma, the clinical results with lurbinectedin in patients with mesothelioma to date and other areas of lung cancer treatment in which lurbinectedin might prove useful in the future.