Micrographs of squamous carcinomaNEPHRON, WIKIMEDIA
Treating an aggressive type of lung cancer with a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy significantly improves patients’ survival compared with chemotherapy alone, according to a study presented yesterday (April 16) at the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR). The results were also published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“Using this combination therapy to treat patients with such an aggressive disease could be an important advance in keeping patients alive and well for longer,” says coauthor Leena Ghandi, a thoracic oncologist at NYU Langone Health, during a press conference at AACR. In an AACR statement that accompanied the press conference, Ghandi calls the results “practice-changing.”
Ghandi and her colleagues studied 616 patients with untreated metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung ...
