Breathe (Aug 2024)

Adjuvant immunotherapy and targeted therapy in early and locally advanced resectable lung cancer: expanding treatment tentacles?

  • Evaggelos Fergadis,
  • Amadea Heitmann,
  • Theodore Tsaras,
  • Georgia Hardavella

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0035-2024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2

Abstract

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Adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy has been the main treatment following surgical resection with curative intent in early and locally advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) albeit with a 5% improvement in 5-year survival rates. Recent advances in biomarkers pave the way for targeted treatments and immunotherapy in a broader spectrum of patients with subsequently improved clinical outcomes. Targeted treatments and immunotherapy have established their place in the adjuvant setting of resected NSCLC.