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K-Drug Approved For Adjuvant Treatment Of Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Significantly Extending Cancer-Free Survival Of Patients!

The US FDA has approved pablizumab (Keytruda) as an adjuvant treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. In the trial, pablizumab (Keytruda) significantly prolonged cancer-free survival in patients compared to placebo.

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More Significant Survival Benefit For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Under 55 Years Of Age, Also Using Immunotherapy!

Recent findings show that the use of cutting-edge immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (referred to as immunotherapy in this article) has increased rapidly over the past decade in the population of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the survival benefit is more pronounced in younger people than in older people, who have limited survival benefit with this therapy.

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World's 2nd KRAS Inhibitor Approved For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With 80% Efficacy!

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to Adagrasib for the treatment of patients with KRAS G12C mutations in non-small cell lung cancer. In the trial, the drug resulted in disease control in 80% of patients, of which, 43% had substantial tumour shrinkage.