Best treatment of extensive-stage lung cancer includes PD-L1 inhibitor and etoposide

Reuters Health - 20/11/2020 - The combination of a programmed-cell-death ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor and etoposide-based chemotherapy appears to be the optimal first-line treatment for patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), according to a new systematic review and network meta-analysis. Numerous combinations of agents are used in the first-line treatment of ES-SCLC, but the optimal combination regimen remains unclear. Dr. Li Zhang and colleagues from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, in Guangzhou, China, sought to clarify which first-line combination regimen yields the best tumor response among patients with ES-SCLC in their review of three phase-2 and 11 phase-3 randomized clinical trials involving more than 4,800 patients and eight different regimens. There was no clearly superior treatment in terms of objective response rate, but the combination of a PD-L1 inhibitor (durvalumab or atezolizumab) plus etoposide-platinum chemothera...

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Posted on 20 November, 202026 November, 2020