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Feature articles about current research in immunology that has significant impact or impact potential on thoracic oncology.

Changing Landscape of Front-line Immunotherapy

By Naiyer A. Rizvi The rapid development of anti-PD-1 and PD-L1 antibodies in cancer underscores the tremendous impact they have had on the cancer landscape...

PACIFIC Flooded Us with Optimism. Now What?

By Mirjana Rajer, MD, PhD Posted: April 1, 2019 For many years, the treatment of patients with stage III lung cancer has been a topic of intense...

Update on Checkpoint Inhibitors in Lung Cancer

By Erik J. MacLaren, PhD The growing number of checkpoint inhibitors currently being developed, without question, has ushered in a new era in clinical oncology,...

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A New Paradigm Post-IASLC WCLC...

Posted: February 2017 By Melody Watson The first plenary session on the last day of IASLC WCLC 2016 covered one of the most exciting areas in...

Letter to the Editor: Previously Excluded Patients with Autoimmune Disorders, HIV, and More

Letter to the Editor: Opening Trials to Patients Living with HIV By Armelle Lavolé, AP-HP Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France Posted: August 14, 2019 In response to the...

Exploring the Potential of Immuno-oncology Combination Therapy

By Cynthia L. Kryder, MS, CCC-Sp Posted: October 2017 Editor Note: The article is part of a newly launched ongoing series about immunooncology (IO) combination therapy,...

PD-L1 Blueprint Project

Posted: February 2017 By Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD In the new era of immunotherapy in thoracic cancer, evaluating PD-L1 status remains a clinical challenge. In...

Ongoing Clinical Challenges: Defining Immunotherapy Benefit for Patients With NSCLC and Poor Performance Status

This article is the first in a two-part series on ongoing challenges using immunotherapy in special populations. The second part of this series focuses on elderly...

PACIFIC Trial Leads to Durvalumab Approval in United States

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved durvalumab on February 16, 2018, for the treatment of patients with stage III NSCLC whose tumors are...

The CRISPR-Cas9 Toolkit: Moving From Bench to Bedside

Posted: June 2017 By Cynthia L. Kryder, MS Decades of immunology research have shown that it is possible to harness the power of the immune system...

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