Disease Background, Patient Characteristics, and Treatment of Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC)
Summary: Each year, the VA manages more than 7,700 patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer. Small Cell Lung Cancer accounts for about 13% of all patients with lung cancer but is characterized by more aggressive disease and a higher mortality rate than NSCLC. Most SCLC patients are diagnosed in the metastatic stage, described as ES-SCLC. For more than 30 years, the standard treatment has been combination platinum chemotherapy. Recently, the approval of checkpoint inhibitors for the first-line treatment of ES-SCLC has improved survival for ES-SCLC patients. In this talk, we will describe the results of the Phase 3 CASPIAN study evaluating the use of durvalumab and chemotherapy in ES-SCLC.
Target Audience: Primary Care, Pulmonologists, Oncologists, Pharmacists and other Healthcare professional who care for patients with ES-SCLC
Speaker: Brian Persing, Medical Oncologist from Mitchell Cancer Institute
Date: Wednesday July 28, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM ET
Virtual Platform: Go To Webinar
Fee: $0
CME/CE: 0 hrs
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