Lung Cancer: Targets and Therapy (Apr 2023)
CheckMate-722: The Rise and Fall of Nivolumab with Chemotherapy in TKI-Refractory EGFR-Mutant NSCLC
Abstract
Alexandria TM Lee,1 Misako Nagasaka1,2 1University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Orange, CA, 92868, USA; 2St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki, JapanCorrespondence: Misako Nagasaka, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, 200 South Manchester, Suite 400, Orange, CA, 92868, USA, Email [email protected]: The treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has increasingly been driven by the presence of targetable driver mutations, including epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. Tyrosine receptor inhibitors (TKIs) have subsequently emerged as the standard-of-care treatment for EGFR-mutant NSCLC. However, there are currently limited treatment options for TKI-refractory EGFR-mutant NSCLC. It is in this context that immunotherapy has arisen as a particularly promising player, especially in the context of favorable results from the ORIENT-31 and IMpower150 trials. Thus, the results of the CheckMate-722 trial were highly anticipated, as it was the first global trial to evaluate the efficacy of immunotherapy in addition to standard platinum-based chemotherapy, specifically in the treatment of EGFR-mutant NSCLC post-progression on TKIs.Keywords: immunotherapy, epidermal growth factor receptor mutation, osimertinib refractory
