Reshaping the Frontline Treatment Landscape of ES-SCLC

Although a number of second-line treatment options exist in the setting of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC), Bruna Pellini, MD, an assistant member at the Department of Thoracic Oncology at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and an assistant professor at Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida, says that the decision for an individual patient to receive a novel agent or chemotherapy depends on one factor: their platinum-free interval.  

Pellini, in an interview with OncLive®, also compares the findings of the CASPIAN and IMpower133 trials and research efforts currently ongoing in ES-SCLC. Read the story here

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