Leora Horn, MD, MSc, Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research; associate professor of medicine (Hematology and Oncology); assistant director of the Educator Development Program and clinical director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, discusses data from an updated analysis of the phase 3 IMpower133 trial, which examined the first-line combination of atezolizumab (Tecentriq), carboplatin, and etoposide in small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
Results from an exploratory analysis of IMpower133 presented during the 2020 AACR Virtual Annual Meeting showed that the combination continued to improve overall survival (OS) compared with chemotherapy alone in the frontline treatment of patients with extensive-stage SCLC, regardless of PD-L1 and blood tumor mutational burden (TMB) status.
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