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ReviewTranslational lung cancer research2021

Immunotherapy in small cell lung cancer: one step at a time: a narrative review.

Daphne W Dumoulin, Anne-Marie C Dingemans, Joachim G J V Aerts, Jordi Remon, Dirk K M De Ruysscher, Lizza E L Hendriks

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Review in Translational lung cancer research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Daphne W DumoulinDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Anne-Marie C DingemansDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Joachim G J V AertsDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Jordi RemonDepartment of Medical Oncology, Centro Integral Oncológico Clara Campal Barcelona (CIOCCB), Hospital HM Delfos, HM Hospitales, Barcelona, Spain.
Dirk K M De RuysscherDepartment of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO Clinic), Maastricht University Medical Centre, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Lizza E L HendriksDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy has been the standard of care for many years for patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Despite exceptionally high responses (up to 80%) with chemotherapy, the majority of patients relapse rapidly within weeks to months after treatment completion. Therefore, new and better treatment options are necessary. Recently, synergistic activity has been reported for the addition of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) to standard platinum-based chemotherapy in the therapeutic strategy of advanced SCLC. For the first time after several decades, a significant survival improvement was achieved for this population. However, the overwhelming majority of patients do not respond to ICI, or relapse rapidly. There is need for better knowledge about the biology, histopathologic features, and molecular pathways of SCLC. This can probably help to identify the optimal predictive biomarkers, which are warranted to develop an individual therapeutic strategy including the rational use of a combination of immunotherapeutic agents. Here, we provide an overview of the rationale for and clinical results of the completed and ongoing trials using different strategies of immunotherapy in SCLC. In addition, opportunities for further improvement of therapies will be discussed, including the addition of radiotherapy, co-stimulatory antibodies, and other immune modifying agents.

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checkpoint inhibitionimmunotherapySmall cell lung cancer (SCLC)

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PMID34295691
PMCPMC8264327

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