The Use of Biomarkers to Guide Treatment Decisions in Non-small-cell Lung Cancer

Accurately detecting lung tumours and their margins is important for disease outcomes.1,2 However, detection is challenging due to the use of minimally invasive surgery and current localization techniques, such as computed tomography (CT)-guided and endobronchial interventions, which add significantly to procedure time and risk of complications.3 Intraoperative imaging using a targeted agent to optically fluoresce cancerous cells may address these problems, in addition to locating […]

Cancer treatment has expanded rapidly in recent years as advancements in the fields of tumour biology and molecular diagnostics have informed the development of targeted therapies, improving survival in patients with oncogene-addicted cancers with therapeutically relevant molecular lesions. Osimertinib has become the standard-of-care treatment in the USA and elsewhere for classical epidermal growth factor receptor […]

The treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has seen significant advances in the past decade, with the availability of multiple targeted therapy agents for oncogenic-driven non-squamous NSCLC and the advent of immunotherapy that has completely revolutionized the treatment of patients without oncogenic drivers. Consequently, the lives of patients with NSCLC have significantly […]