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SUBMITTER: Giunta EF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9174785 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giunta Emilio Francesco EF Addeo Alfredo A Rizzo Alessio A Banna Giuseppe Luigi GL
Frontiers in medicine 20220525
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is still a lethal disease. Three phase III randomized clinical trials (IMpower133, CASPIAN, and KEYNOTE-604) have highlighted the survival gain of adding immune checkpoint inhibitors to first-line standard chemotherapy in advanced SCLC patients. In this review, we discuss the data from the three trials above. Furtherly, we analyze issues that still need to be elucidated, like the role of biomarkers, poor performance status at baseline, the presence of brain metastas ...[more]