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  • Clinical trial shows combination immunotherapy treatment effective before lung cancer surgery

    09/18/2023 7:06:01 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 3 replies
    Combination immunotherapy with the anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody durvalumab and other novel agents outperforms durvalumab alone in the neoadjuvant (pre-surgical) setting for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to researchers. The multicenter, randomized Phase II NeoCOAST clinical trial evaluated neoadjuvant durvalumab alone and in combination with each of the following novel immunotherapies: the anti-CD73 monoclonal antibody oleclumab, the anti-NKG2A monoclonal antibody monalizumab, and the anti-STAT3 antisense oligonucleotide danvatirsen. The NeoCOAST study enrolled 84 patients with untreated, resectable (>2cm), stage I-IIIA NSCLC. Eighty-three patients received one 28-day cycle of neoadjuvant durvalumab alone or combined with another therapy. The investigators assessed pathological complete...