Although surgery remains the first-line treatment for patients with early-stage resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), recent evidence has shown that the incorporation of immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) or programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1), demonstrated benefits in the perioperative settings.¹ It is believed that the enhanced perioperative regimens, by combining the benefits of neoadjuvant and adjuvant immunotherapy, could further improve patients’ long-term clinical outcomes.¹

Despite recent advances in oncology, drug resistance and disease relapse have remained a significant unmet need among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Recently, the development of novel therapeutics including tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have made multiple breakthroughs in the treatment of NSCLC. In a virtual meeting and clinical debate, “Durvalumab in EGFRm Stage III NSCLC – To Offer or Not to Offer?”, Dr. Victor Lee summarized the key studies of NSCLC treatments, including the phase 3 PACIFIC trial of an anti-programmed cell death receptor ligand 1 (PD-L1) drug, durvalumab. Dr. Oscar Chan and Dr. Jonathan Nyaw then discussed the applications and other considerations of the durvalumab regimen among stage 3 Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor mutated (EGFRm) NSCLC patients in the clinical setting.

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive high-grade neuroendocrine tumor associated with a short doubling time, a high growth fraction, and early development of widespread metastases. The aggressiveness of the tumor leads to an