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Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer worldwide and in the USA, with its incidence varying depending on geographic and socioeconomic factors.1–3 According to data from the Global Cancer Observatory: Cancer Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence (GLOBACAN) database, an estimated 2.48 million new cases of lung cancer were reported in 2022.4,5 Although lung cancer rates in the […]

Jean-Luc Van Laethem, ASCO GI 2021: Pembrolizumab for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Published Online: Feb 23rd 2021

We were delighted to talk to Jean-Luc Van Laethem (Hôpital Universitaire Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium) around pembrolizumab therapy in patients with previously untreated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (Clinical Trial Identifier: NCT02702414).

The abstract ‘Pembrolizumab (pembro) monotherapy for previously untreated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC): Phase II KEYNOTE-224 study’ (ABSTRACT NUMBER: 297) was presented at the virtual ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium 2021, 15-17 January, 2021.

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  1. What is the current status of pembrolizumab in the treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and how will the findings of KEYNOTE-224 impact on future research? (0:39)
  2. Which patients are most likely to respond to pembrolizumab therapy? (2:35)

Disclosures: Jean-Luc Van Laethem has nothing to disclose in relation to this video.

Support: Interview and filming supported by Touch Medical Media.

Filmed as a highlight of ASCO GI 2021 (Virtual).

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