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il crescere di interesse e di risultati nel campo dell¹immunoterapia su svariate patologie oncologiche, ed in particolare in quella toracica, fanno sì che ci sia sempre più necessità di tenersi aggiornati ed informati. Impresa sicuramente non semplice se si pensa che i lavori preclinici e clinici in questo settore, pubblicati da gennaio ad oggi sulle riviste indicizzate, sono stati più di 100.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors, antiprogrammed death receptor 1 (anti-PD-1)/antiprogrammed death-ligand 1 (anti-PD-L1), are new therapeutic regimens for managing advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer patients, giving an overall response rate of approximately 20% as monotherapy in second-line treatment. The use of predictive biomarkers for identifying patients suitable for these therapies is an important issue not only for making treatment decisions, but also from a medical economic point of view. Among potential …

Despite recent advances in the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, there remains a need for effective treatments for progressive disease. We assessed the efficacy of pembrolizumab for patients with previously treated, PD-L1-positive, advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. We did this randomised, open-label, phase 2/3 study at 202 academic medical centres in 24 countries. Patients with previously treated non-small-cell lung cancer with PD-L1 expression on at least 1% of tumour cells were randomly …