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ReviewCancers2024

An Updated Review of Management of Resectable Stage III NSCLC in the Era of Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy.

Saurav Verma, Daniel Breadner, Abhenil Mittal, David A Palma, Rahul Nayak, Jacques Raphael, Mark Vincent

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07754812 (A Multicenter, Open-Label, Single-Arm Phase I/II Study of Oral Paclitaxel Solution Combined With an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor and Concurrent Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy as Neoadjuvant Treatment in Older Patients With Resectable Stage IIA-IIIB Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07754812 phase4recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

A Multicenter, Open-Label, Single-Arm Phase I/II Study of Oral Paclitaxel Solution Combined With an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor and Concurrent Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy as Neoadjuvant Treatment in Older Patients With Resectable Stage IIA-IIIB Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

TypeinterventionalSponsorShanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, ChinaRan2026 to 2028Enrolled78ConditionsNSCLC (Non-small Cell Lung Cancer)ArmsOral Paclitaxel Solution, PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor, Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT), Radical Lung Cancer Surgery
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Management of borderline resectable NSCLC: a narrative review.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  4. A systematic review and meta-analysis on survival, pathological response, and safety of durvalumab in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Saurav VermaDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8841-9820
Daniel BreadnerDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5379-7621
Abhenil MittalDivision of Medical Oncology, Northeast Cancer Centre, Ramsey Lake Health Centre, Sudbury, ON P3E 5J1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0402-1573
David A PalmaLondon Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON N6A 5W9, Canada.
Rahul NayakLondon Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON N6A 5W9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1652-0417
Jacques RaphaelDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9484-0224
Mark VincentDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada.
Western University · CANortheast Cancer Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have an established role in the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). ICIs have now entered the paradigm of early-stage NSCLC. The recent evidence shows that the addition of ICI to neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves the pathological complete response (pCR) rate and survival rate in early-stage resectable NSCLC and is now a standard of care option in this setting. In this regard, stage III NSCLC merits special consideration, as it is heterogenous and requires a multidisciplinary approach to management. As the neoadjuvant approach is being adopted widely, new challenges have emerged and the boundaries for resectability are being re-examined. Consequently, it is ever more important to carefully individualize the treatment strategy for each patient with resectable stage III NSCLC. In this review, we discuss the recent literature in this field with particular focus on evolving definitions of resectability, T4 disease, N2 disease (single and multi-station), and nodal downstaging. We also highlight the controversy around adjuvant treatment in this setting and discuss the selection of patients for adjuvant treatment, options of salvage, and next line treatment in cases of progression on/after neoadjuvant treatment or after R2 resection. We will conclude with a brief discussion of predictive biomarkers, predictive models, ongoing studies, and directions for future research in this space.

Indexed as

ICIimmune checkpoint inhibitorsimmunotherapylocally advancedlung cancerneoadjuvantNSCLCperioperativeresectablestage III

Identifiers

PMID38610980
PMCPMC11010993
OpenAlexW4393218847

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